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THE MESSAGE FROM THE KING'S COFFER 



THE MESSAGE 

FROM 

THE KING'S COFFER 

BY 

RONALD TEMPLE 




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TO 
OUR FATHER 

WHO, laying the foundations of the earth 
and the measures thereof stretching line and 
plummet thereon; and making fast those foun- 
dations for a witness to the lord of hosts, in 
the midst of the land of Egypt, (as told in the 
'Book of fob); yet findeth the infinite J^ove 
& Wisdom to regard even the little, obscure 
sparrow thatfalleth .... 

Such volition as has, under His direction, 

been necessary to the re-assembling and re- 

prese?itation of this (^Message 

is in the reverence of 

child to Parent 

HUMBLY DEDICATED 



CONTENTS 

Part i 

THE FLOWER OF EGYPT page I 

Part ii 
the song of the morning stars i 9 

Part in 
children of word 43 

Part iv 
the great one 9 i 

Part v 
the song of songs, which is solomons i39 



[ vii ] 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 



I 

In The Light of what is here offered, it is felt by the author 
that acknowledgment is primarily due those who, in evolu- 
tional precession, have made this Message possible: 

Martin Luther, sometime Professor of Philoso- 
phy, author of a treatise nailed perforce on the door of his 
church, who wrested the Holy Bible from behind bolted 
doors, and so gave to his fellow man his inheritance. 

Robert Green Ingersoll, so-called " anti- 
Christian" lecturer, and "Atheist," author of The Mistakes 
of Moses, — who couched his lance against the material mis- 
conception of the Holy Bible, and proved his sonship of 
God by his love for his fellow man. 

Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health, 
with Key to the Scriptures, — who reverdured the forest hewn 
away by Robert Green Ingersoll, with the Beauty of Con- 
sciousness, and proved the Fatherhood of God by the power 
of Universal Healing. 

Joseph Augustus Seiss,d. d., author of A 
Miracle in Stone, who, in a-tone-ment with his Father, un- 
folded the carven petals of the Flower of Egypt. 

Isaiah, igth Chapter: 

1 8: In that day shall five 

cities in the land of Egypt 
speak the language of Ca- 
naan, and swear to the Lord 
of hosts; one shall be called, 
The city of destruction. 

19: In that day shall there be 
an altar to the Lord in the 
midst of the land of Egypt, and 
a pillar at the border thereof 
to the Lord. 



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20: And it shall be for a sign 
and for a witness unto the 
Lord of hosts in the land of 
Egypt: for they shall cry unto 
the Lord because of the op- 
pressors, and he shall send 
them a saviour, and a great 
one, and he shall deliver them. 



IN the midst of the land of what was once called Egypt, 
in the very center of the earth, as we reckon such, on the 
exact dividing line between the Northern and Southern 
hemispheres, stands, over a virtually Bottomless Pit, a Cyclo- 
pean monument in stone, known as the First of the World's 
Seven Wonders, the Great Pyramid called Cheops, central 
figure of the three-pyramidal group known as "The Gizeh 
Group." 

At midday, exactly, the solemn index finger of this Great 
Pyramid points directly to the overhead sun, and by the 
distance of this finger from the base of the Great Pyramid 
the mean distance of the sun from the earth is computed. 
With equal solemnity, the passage of entrance into this 
Great Pyramid points at that exact place in the heavens 
where, in the year 2170 B. C, as we reckon time, the then 
tail star of the Constellation Serpent, a Draconis, which was 
also the Pole Star, or Star of the North, shone, and signaling 
the removal of which from its heavenly position at that date, 
the Free-Masonic bodies of the World darken the Northern 
Transepts of their temples to this day. 

At exact midnight, with pyramidal accuracy, this mighty 
index finger points at the place in the heavens where, at 
midnight of the autumnal equinox of that year which the 
Great Pyramid declares to be its birth year, Alcyone, the 
"throne" star of the Constellation Pleiades, was set lantern- 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 5 

wise, while the cycle of equinoxial precession is told in exact 
inches in the two diagonals of the Great Pyramid's base, 
taken together in the form of a cross. What time Job sought 
to measure his wisdom with that of God, the Father correct- 
ing his son, asked, 

Job, 38th Chapter: 

31 : Canst thou bind the sweet 
influences of Pleiades, ? 

2y. Knowest thou the ordi- 
nances of heaven? canst thou 
set the dominion thereof in the 
earth? 

Since time immemorial, and to this day, the midnight 
beginning the autumnal equinox is still reckoned as the be- 
ginning of the true year. 

Modern astrology now concedes to Alcyone the focus of 
the Universal system of gravitation, of action and re-action. 

Into the manner of the building of the Great Pyramid and 
its microscopically accurate plan of construction and orien- 
tation it is unnecessary to go in this writing, saving in the 
briefest way, and full information may always be obtained 
from a number of standard scientific works thereon, chief 
among which both for mature and uninstructed interpreta- 
tion is A Miracle in Stone, by the Reverend Joseph A. 
Seiss, D.D. 

Suffice it for this writing, therefore, that the Great Pyra- 
mid has been referred to by the earliest of the earth's known 
literature, as well as by no less an authority than the Holy 
Bible itself (and that again and again), whose passages corre- 
late exactly with the Pyramidal passageways in measure- 
ment and direct reference. 

In the Book of Job, — chapter 38, — the speaker, God, de- 
scribes to Job all creation, which he pictures as an edifice, in 
the terms of the geometer and master-builder, the Great High 



6 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Mason, — bases, height, corner stone, lines, measures, and 
foundations. Elsewhere God is accredited with speaking of 
stretching the line and plummet over his work; and also in 
this same Book of Job the earth is described as hanging upon 
nothing, even as the Great Pyramid is suspended (symboli- 
cally) over the nothingness of a Bottomless Pit. Says God, 
Master Mason, to Job: 

Job, 38th Chapter: 

1: Who is this that darkeneth 
counsel by words without 
knowledge? 

4: Where wast thou when I 
laid the foundations of the 
earth? declare, if thou hast 
understanding. 

5: Who hath laid the measures 
thereof, if thou knowest? or 
who hath stretched the line 
upon it? 

6: Whereupon are the founda- 
tions thereof fastened? or 
who laid the corner stone 
thereof; 

18: Hast thou perceived the 

breadth of the earth? declare 
if thou knowest it all. 

19: Where is the way where 
light dwelleth? and as for 
darkness, where is the place 
thereof, 

20: That thou shouldest take 
it to the bound thereof, and 
that thou shouldest know the 
paths to the house thereof? 



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In verses 19 and 20, just cited, "the way where light dwel- 
leth," and the "place of darkness thereof," and the "paths to 
the house thereof," find corroboration in this historic wise. 
About 3000 years after the date of building of the Great Pyra- 
mid, the then son of the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid, of Ara- 
bian Night's fame, (elsewhere in this writing told of), not 
knowing of the entrance passage of light, attempted to tunnel 
through the mass of masonry, and brought up over the Bot- 
tomless Pit therein, the place of darkness. 

Lo! in these verses the declaration of the work of his own 
hands by the Master Builder. And all of this wonderful edi- 
fice, we are informed in this same chapter of the Book of Job 
by the Master Builder, was consummated in the presence of 
the morning stars and of the sons of God, when the former 
sang together and the latter shouted for joy. 

On the strength of the testimony of these just quoted 
verses from the Book of Job alone, without further confirma- 
tion of the exactly equal numbers occurring to describe the 
same things in both Bible and Pyramid (both works ac- 
knowledgedly inspired), the oneness of the Holy Bible and 
Great Pyramid in expression is established; for it is not intel- 
ligently possible to place any other interpretation upon the 
wonderful orientation of the Great Pyramid, or on the equally 
wonderful parabolic language of the Holy Bible, both elo- 
quent histories of the human race, other than that both are 
the presentation in mortal manifestation, — the "Word made 
flesh," as John says, — in exact corroboration of each other of 
the Psychology of Life; witnesses to the eternal sonship of 
man, and the eternal Fatherhood of God; testifying in stone 
and scripture to the former of his inheritance which, for lust 
and gain, man laid down when he passed of his own volition 
from the Light, — he a son of Light, of Eyes-Real, — from the 
knowledge of the beauty of God, down into the long twilight 
of his human history to the verge of the very Pit itself. 



8 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Passing over the myriad direct references in the Holy'Bible 
to the Great Pyramid, we read in the Book of Psalms: 

48th Psalm: 

2: Beautiful for situation, the 
joy of the whole earth, is mount 
Zion, on the sides of the 
north, the city of the great 
King. 

We are, in Revelation, distinctly told that the city of the 
Great King, — the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, than 
which could none be greater, — is the new Jerusalem, whose 
counterpart is, of course, that Jerusalem of Judea as known 
to us. This city, says the Psalmist of old, is to be found on the 
north side of Mount Zion, which latter is so beautifully (or 
centrally) situated as to be the joy of the whole earth, its 
focusing point. 

In A Miracle in Stone (page 16), Doctor Seiss, seeking a 
given indication for Jerusalem in the Great Pyramid, says: 

"And if the Great Pyramid belongs at all to the great system of God's re- 
demptive interpositions it could hardly be wanting in some reference to 
that ' city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.' So at least it ap- 
peared to me, and led me to search for the missing indications. I knew that 
the Pyramid's most distinguished cubit answers to the sacred cubit of 
Moses; that the capacity measure of the Pyramid's granite coffer is the 
same as that of the Ark of the Covenant; that the sabbatic system of the 
Jews is distinctly noted in connection with the Queen's Chamber, and that 
the molten sea had proportions of earth commensuration which appear in 
the size of the Pyramid's main chamber. ... It hence occurred to me to 
ascertain the exact direction of Jerusalem from the Great Pyramid and to 
try whether it would fit to any of its interior angles. Having used two dif- 
ferent maps to make sure of accuracy, the result came out exactly the same 
in both, namely, that three of the main inside angles of the Great Pyramid 
applied to its north side eastward, point directly to Jerusalem. If a cannon 
ball were shot from the Great Pyramid's north side at the precise angle 
eastward as that of the entrance passage computed with the base line, or 
that of the main ascending passage computed with the same line, or that of 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 9 

the Grand Gallery computed with the passage to the Queen's Chamber, 
that ball, could it reach so far, would strike the Holy City." 

So then, corroborating the patiently waiting Psalmist of old, 
we find by exact scientific computation that Jerusalem of 
Judea, the earthly counterpart of the heavenly Jerusalem of 
Revelation, lies geographically due from the North Side of 
that "mount" which is so beautifully situated as to be the 
focusing point of the whole earth, the First of the World's 
Seven Wonders. Memoria in aeterna. 

This Zion, by means of whose courses we "mount," is a 
true pyramid, having four equal sides and five corners. It is 
sunk in heavy foundations, and in its dimensions gives the 
value of TT {pi), squaring the circle. That is, an encompassing 
circle drawn to the radius of the Great Pyramid's true height, 
shows the lengths of the four sides of the square base to be the 
same as the circumference described by a sphere, of which the 
vertical height is the radius. The granite blocks of which it 
consists rise by a series of "mounts" or steps, — that is, 
courses of its masonry, — to a scale of ten feet of horizontal 
measure for every nine feet of perpendicular, to its estimated 
height of 5822 earth-commensurated inches. It contains a 
number of significant passageways, and two unsealed cham- 
bers, known as the chambers of the King and of the Queen. 
This latter chamber is also sometimes referred to as the " Sab- 
batic" chamber. The Great Pyramid's base measurement is 
about one-sixth of a mile per side. 

In its entire system of commensuration the Great Pyramid 
sets forth rigidly certain basic numbers, and combinations 
thereof, which numbers have been accepted unquestioningly 
during the ages as numerical significants of the various laws 
of life — as, for example, number five for comprehension, seven 
for mutation, and nine for evolution. So that among numerous 
and manifest computations, all scientifically conceded and 
established, the following are most apparent, — that each of 



io THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

the Pyramid's base lines measures just the even fractional 
part of the semi-axis of the earth, just as many times as there 
are calendar days in the year; that its height, multiplied 
fractionally by a prominent basic figure raised to the power of 
another of its most prominent basic figures, gives the mean 
distance of the earth from the sun; that its unit of length is 
the even basic fractional part of the polar diameter of the 
earth; that its vast bulk of masonry is the even basic portion 
of the weight of the earth; and that its settings and shapings 
are squared and oriented with an accuracy that for over four 
thousand of years has defied the ignorance of non-science to 
unravel, — wonderful revelations, yet only dimly perceived by 
the finest flowerings of mentality that our world has to offer. 

Thus, briefly, is that great Pyramid called Cheops, the First 
of the World's Seven Wonders, a metrologic, mathematic, 
scientific, literary, symbolic treasure house, the Library of 
the World, whose answer to the worn-out contention that it 
was originally a tomb is given in the mighty silence of its un- 
equaled proportions and orientation; for no designer of that 
structure of treasured lore would have any sane excuse for 
submitting to the impotence of Death. And so, with these few 
brief facts, enumerated merely with a view to refreshing the 
memory of the instructed, and calling to the attention of the 
uninstructed some of the most salient features of the Great 
Pyramid, but with no idea of providing a manual into the 
plan of construction of the Edifice itself, this writing, after 
the immediately following fixing of the date of the erection of 
the Structure, passes directly to the Message from the King's 
Coffer in the Great Pyramid. 

As has already been briefly stated, the entrance to the 
Great Pyramid is adown a long passageway, or tube, which 
points exactly to the place in the heavens wherein, in the year 
2170 B. C.j a Draconis (the then Pole Star) of the Constella- 
tion Serpent, for the last time shone. As the tail star of this 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 1 1 

Constellation, Serpent, — symbol of the teacher of man, — we 
have the Great Pyramid's entrance calling attention at once 
to the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, — a story cor- 
roborated in the King's Coffer as well as an astrological date 
for the erection, or completion, of the Great Pyramid. 

Certain it is that a knowledge of the story of the Fall of 
man, as told in the Holy Bible and Pyramid, would have 
saved one monarch his power and credit, for its application 
intelligently made would have guided him to where, short 
distance above his forced tunneling, the mouth of the en- 
trance tube to the Great Pyramid lies ever pointing to the 
star that apparently fell from its place in the tail of the Con- 
stellation Serpent, and from its glory as Light of the North, 
when man committed the Sin of the Ages. 

Some three thousand years subsequent to the erection of 
the Great Pyramid, one Al Mamoun, a son of the Caliph 
Haroun Al Raschid, was wrought upon by the necromancers 
of his court to believe the Great Pyramid filled with hidden 
treasure of a visible kind, — jewels and gold. Guided by this 
ignorant thought, Al Mamoun set to with armies of workmen 
to quarry an entrance into the Pyramid. Finally, after re- 
peated failures, this was accomplished, a narrow entrance 
being forced into the great edifice in a dead straight line. 
Crawling along this, Al Mamoun and his workers came tum- 
bling into the Pyramid at the point where their forced dead 
line broke into the entrance tube. Here, block after block of 
granite descended from the interior mass of masonry within 
to warn the would-be despoilers; but, finally, clearing a way 
over the debris, the caliph and his men clomb up the long 
ascent to the chamber of the King, only to find therein a 
lidless, empty coffer of red granite. The effort strained Al 
Mamoun's sovereignty to the point of revolution, beggared 
his credit, and virtually cost him his power and throne. Had 
Al Mamoun come a-seeking real treasure, at no great distance 



12 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

above where he attempted to violate the Great Pyramid he 
might have entered it by its own inviting entrance passage- 
way, and so walked quietly and with perfect security and dig- 
nity adown this and on up the Grand Gallery to the unsealed 
chambers within. 

Astrologically, in the year 2170 B. C, as told by the then 
Pole Star, a Draconis, the Great Pyramid was ready for inter- 
pretation. But, lest any, sceptical, should question such 
manner of deriving a date for the foundation of the edifice, 
the figures 2170 are also consummated in stone in the interior 
of the edifice. 

It has been established and accepted by several authorities, 
and the scientific thought of the world, that the sacred cubit 
of the Bible is confirmed by the Great Pyramid in its given 
cubit measure of twenty-five earth-commensurated inches, 
this confirmation supporting Sir Isaac Newton's determina- 
tion of the same. By wholly scientific process it is further 
completely and satisfactorily established that the Pyramid 
inch, which is the earth-commensurated inch, — for the Great 
Pyramid gives to us earth men every accepted, and now used, 
system of standard measure, — is the unit measure of the 
standard, or true, year. According to this unit standard of 
time measure, says Doctor Seiss: 

". . . . the lower tubal passageways prove themselves wonderful time 
charts of human history, pointing out to us as well the wonders of the stars; 
and the notations in the one answer to, and confirm absolutely, the nota- 
tions in the other. In these passageways the inch unit of year measure ap- 
pears to tell its direct story." 

"The second tube begins a record dating from the formation of nations, the 
subsequent history being a downward one under the influence of a dragon 
star to the mouth of a bottomless pit. Following this decline for one thousand 
inches, at which date the Children of Israel begin their national, economic 
history, and then upwards along the ascending passage for 1 542 inches, — the 
computed number of years from the Exodus to the birth of tlie Christian Dis- 
pensation, the exact last inch brings us to the beginning of the Grand Gallery," 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 13 

that "way" which leads to the chamber so numerically 
identified with the Son of God, of which numerals further 
explanation is offered herein in another place. 

"Thus, counting backward, from the beginning of the Grand Gallery 1542 
inches to the entrance passageway, and then up the entrance passageway 
628 inches further, we arrive at a total of 2170 inches, which is the astro- 
nomical year date of the Great Pyramid." 

This deduction from A Miracle in Stone finds also confirm- 
ation in the efforts of Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, sometime 
Astronomer Royal of Scotland. 

But why have stopped at this upward 628 inches? Why not 
have continued on up the end of the entrance tube to its 
mouth? Because at the exact last inch of these just enumer- 
ated 2170 inches we come to a distinct and beautifully cut 
line, ruled into the stone sides of the passageway of entrance 
from top to bottom, placed there by none other than the 
master builders themselves, which line says as loud as can 
stones be made to speak, "Here is the end." 

Five times five courses of masonry construction above 
the chamber known from time immemorial as the Queen's (or 
Sabbatic) Chamber, or ten times five courses of masonry con- 
struction from the Great Pyramid's base, brings the seeker to 
the flooring of the equally anciently known and named King's 
Chamber, — that chamber with which, as has just been 
pointed out, the presenter of the Christian Dispensation is so 
numerically identified. In the center of the King's Chamber 
stands the King's Coffer, red granite in substance, lidless, 
oblong rectangular in shape. Too large to permit of removal 
from the chamber in which it stands, yet not of huge propor- 
tions, it is interesting in the light of a Biblical description of 
this Kingdom to recall how the savants of a certain modern 
time dissipated considerable valuable calculations in an en- 
deavor to devise some means by which this King's Coffer 



1 4 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

might be removed from its stronghold, only to be always and 
finally baffled by the one objective that, itself in no apparent 
sense a fixture, is yet bolted for all time to the very bowels of 
the earth; held against the ruthless hand of vandalism in a 
Kingdom where "neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and 
where thieves can not break through and steal." Not in chal- 
lenge, but as a direct demonstration to man of the power of 
Wisdom and futility of Ignorance — first of all lessons — 
stands the King's Coffer beyond the possibility of removal 
from its chamber. 

Did the Mind that oriented this vast structure and placed 
therein the Coffer, coveted of savants throughout the ages, 
but build such coffer as a place wherein to crawl and die? Un- 
able to remove the King's Coffer from its eternal resting 
place, quasi-science has been at much pains to devise some 
reason for its being where it is, — a coffin, although, of course, 
without vestige of evidence of burial ever having occurred 
there, and with the marvelous geometrizing and orientation of 
the Great Pyramid itself to offset such deduction; a box to hold 
food for priests (which priests subsequently retired into the 
belly of the Sphinx to sleep off the effects of their meals, eaten 
beside a supposititious mummy in the King's Chamber); — 
no theory has been too far fetched, ill-founded, or absurd to 
account for the presence of this seemingly inexplainable 
Coffer, until, in recent years, unbiased scientists have proven 
beyond the realm of cavil or possible doubt that, so far from 
being a coffin, or food-box for priests, in this Coffer is manifest 
the evidence of the very Lore of Life; and that from this 
Pyramid and its Coffer do we obtain every Law, mathemati- 
cal, astrological, geographical, metrological, philosophical, and 
literary, under which we earth men live, move, breathe, and 
have our being. And, finally, the very word "Coffer" has ever 
been used to designate treasure-container, rather than the 
chief ornament of an undertaking establishment or kitchen. 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 15 

Of the Coffer itself the following facts are common prop- 
erty: its sides and bottom are identical in measurement with 
its internal space; the length of its two sides to its height being 
as a circle to its diameter. Its exterior volume is just twice the 
dimensions of its bottom, and its whole measure is just the 
fiftieth part of the chamber in which it stands. Thus much for 
the most obvious phenomena it presents to the novitiate. 

But a very little experimentation serves to instruct such 
novitiate that the Coffer's internal space is numeric also with 
two standard wet and dry measures, such internal space prov- 
ing itself just four times the measure of an English quart of 
wheat. Following this line of thought in his seeking, such 
novitiate, if sufficiently informed concerning the various 
earth measurements common to our text-book laws, would 
further discover that every known standard linear, cubic, and 
otherwise measure, together with the standard degrees of the 
boiling and freezing points of various liquids, the fusing and 
tempering degrees of all known standard metals, and the 
specific gravity of standard bodies of known weight, includ- 
ing the earth itself, are among other measurements all given 
in the dimensions of the King's Coffer in logical, scientific 
sequence, just as one would open and read a text book of 
standard weights and measures, and the laws governing the 
same. 

More extended observation of the further contents of the 
King's Coffer measure identifies it absolutely with the Holy 
Ark of the Tabernacle and the Temple as described in the 
Holy Bible, — wondrously descriptive phraseology! — which 
Ark was two-and-one-half cubits long and one-and-one-half 
cubits broad and high. Further, the internal cubical dimen- 
sions of the King's Coffer tally exactly with the Ark of the 
Tabernacle and the Temple, 71,248 inches; such dimensions 
having been laid down specifically, we are told, by God Him- 
self. Also, the Ark and the Coffer mutually sustain each other 



16 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

in the recognition of one and the same earth-commensurated 
cubit. Using, therefore, this same earth-commensurated cubit 
as identical with the sacred cubit of the Holy Bible, the 
further result automatically follows, that the Jewish laver 
and the Ark of the Tabernacle are the same in capacity 
measure with the King's Coffer of the Great Pyramid, and 
that Solomon's molten sea was just fifty times the capacity of 
either of these, and exactly equal in interior cubic space with 
the King's Chamber itself. (Vide A Miracle in Stone.) 

Further incursions into the numeric significances of the 
contents of the King's Coffer reveal that it is identical also as 
that Ark of Genesis described as Noah's Ark, wherein, two 
and two, were all manifestations of the Lore of Life to be pre- 
served, — (Genesis 6:19), 'And of every living thing of all 
flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the Ark, to keep 
them alive with thee; they shall be male and female." And 
this same interpretation of the Ark of Noah, and that which 
follows herein, for once logically explains how in one building, 
or floating structure, could possibly be contained two of 
every kind of living thing that is, or was, on the face of the 
whole earth, as well as how a "flood," 15 cubits in depth, 
(Genesis 7:20) could cover the mountains, and "all the high 
hills, that were under the whole heaven," (Genesis 7:19). 
Also, why in the 17th verse of the 7th chapter of Genesis it 
should be distinctly stated that the "flood was forty days 
upon the earth," while in the 24th verse of the same chapter 
it as distinctly states that "the waters prevailed upon the 
earth an hundred and fifty days." 

In Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Rite 
of Freemasonry, prepared by Albert Pike for the Supreme 
Council of the Thirty-Third Degree of the Southern Juris- 
diction of the United States, and Published by its Authority, 
Charleston A:M: 5641 — on page 11, is stated: 

"The Holy Bible, Square, and Compass are not only styled the Great 



THE FLOWER OF EGYPT 17 

Lights in Masonry, but they are also technically called the furniture of 
the Lodge: and .... it is held that there is no Lodge without them." 

That body of operatives now styling themselves Free-Ma- 
sons; that body of inspirationists styling themselves Christian 
Scientists; those astrologers, astronomers, geologists, and 
mathematicians, a long list of whom find Pyramid and Bible 
in exact accordance; our standard text books, and the laws 
of our governings — either these are wrong, or the carven 
petals of the Flower of Egypt unfold to tell a different story 
than that which the Holy Bible makes so manifest. 



THE SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 



I 



II 

N The Preface (page vii, lines 11-12), of Science and 
Health, with Key to the Scriptures, its author, Mary 
Baker Eddy, refers to the 

"... daystar of divine Science, 
lighting the way to eternal harmony." 



"Harmony," in the Glossary to Science and Health, with 
Key to the Scriptures (see "Kingdom of Heaven," page 
590:1) she states to be synonymous with the Kingdom of 
Heaven, where is " the realm of unerring, eternal, and om- 
nipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is su- 
preme." 

The Great Pyramid has five equal corners, and all of its 
measurements basically are fives and the multiplications 
thereof. The focusing point of the laws of life, itself the center 
of the known earth, pointing with utter accuracy at midday 
to the central system of lighting, and at midnight to the 
" throne" .seat of the Universe's system of articulation, and so 
marvelously foretelling the birth of the Christian Dispensation 
in astronomical and unit measure numerals, the Great Pyra- 
mid symbolizes the five-pointed Star that should herald the 
Birth, — "the daystar of divine Science, lighting the way to 
eternal harmony." 

It is, of course, an engineering fact, or a fact of engineering 
knowledge, that all building is on certain "pitch," or "tone," 
the solidity and endurance of such building depending on its 
trueness to such "tone," a separate "key" to each building 
being thus provided. In the light of this, it is interesting to 
recall how the Israelites accomplished the destruction of an 
inimical city by walking without its walls and all blowing in 
apparent discordancy upon wind instruments. 

The Great Pyramid is built to a scale of 10 feet horizontal 



22 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

for every 9 feet of perpendicular rise therefrom, inclining in- 
wards, thus: 




and although the beautiful 
enamel with which it was originally surfaced entirely has 
been largely vandalized, so that the courses of masonry rise 
now vary slightly from their original "pitch," still sufficient 
of the whole enamel courses remain to confirm the scale of 
masonry courses of the structure to be as given above. This 
system of courses, correlating numerically with the Biblical 
descriptions of the pitch of the Ark, totals (9-f-io) 19 units 
for each whole course upwards, and is the "pitch" or "scale" 
of the Great Pyramid. 

Pythagoras, of Greece, learned of this scale of the Great 
Pyramid from Amasis, an esoteric of Egypt, under whom he 
studied; and returning to Greece, where he founded his first 
"college," Pythagoras attempted to assign values to each 
numerical degree of such "scale." In so far as these "degrees" 
might be said to represent a mortal presentation of birth and 
life, Pythagoras was partly successful, but when passing the 
so-called Consciousness of mortality he strove in the realm of 
real Consciousness, he failed, because he denied to the author 
of all Consciousness, God, the headstone of his building, 
seeking instead to enthrone Pythagoras thereat. For result 
Pythagoras was driven from Greece, removing his college to 
Cretona, in Italy. However, from the "scale" of the Great 
Pyramid, as taught him by Amasis of Egypt, Pythagoras did 
deduce what is called the "Chromatic" scale of music, and 
which scale, consistingof nineteen degrees, is the accepted scale 
of musical composition to this day. Challenged by the incom- 
pleteness of Pythagoras' effort to produce a scale, or pitch, of 
music, which, "truing" the building of the Great Pyramid, 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 23 

would also sequentially "true" the scale of that which the 
Great Pyramid manifestly symbolizes, Harmony or the King- 
dom of Life, the Kingdom of Knowledge and Wisdom, let the 
Holy Bible and the Great Pyramid take up the gauge, and in 
their own given language of Consciousness proclaim a gamut 
of Consciousness, or Harmony, in a given sequential number 
of states of such. 

These nineteen degrees, then, producing this Chromatic 
gamut of sound-motion, may for purposes of illustration be 
considered simply as motion, (not, however, the result of 
motion) ; and as motion solely, become consciously expressed 
thus: 

The first State unquestionably of which we have Con- 
sciousness is Life itself. The second State, our Relativity to 
otherness. Third, the State of Construction, or putting to- 
gether. Fourth, the State of productivity, or Generation. 
Fifth, automatically the State of Comprehension, wherein 
we analyze and synthesize our work. Sixth, the State of At- 
traction, or drawing to us, or to otherness. Seventh, the 
State of change, or Mutation. Eighth, the State of Comple- 
tion. And, Ninth, the State of issuance, or Evolution. 

Applying, then, such States of Consciousness to conditions 
of which we have more apparent impressions, let us observe 
the states of foetal birth from the inception of Life to its is- 
suance from the womb of the mother, realizing at the same 
time that such recreation is but the inverted reflection of the 
All, and only, Creation, produced by these same States of 
Consciousness. 

The month units (as States) of foetal birth may thus be 
written: 

1: Life. 

2: Relativity (Life relating). 

3: Construction (Life constructing). 

4: Generation (Life forming). 



24 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

5: Inclusion, Comprehension (Life including, or 

comprehending). 
6: Attraction (Life drawing otherness to itself, 

and drawing to otherness). 
7: Mutation (At this period the now constructed 

Life within the womb changes). 
8: Completion (the Life-within complete). 
9: Birth, Issuance, Evolution. 

These States producing the evolution of birth are so gen- 
erally known as to need no further elucidation here. As Con- 
sciousness States they govern our every productivity, from 
thebuilding of a "castle" on the sands by our childish hands 
to the throwing of a vast cantilever bridge across a foaming 
torrent. But a moment's intelligent reflection, and the lawyer 
at the bar, the clerk at his desk, the carpenter at his bench, 
and the foreman in the shop, must realize that each builds up 
case, or report, or form, or job, by just these very processes 
sequentially, and by these very processes only,which processes 
are here definitely named the first nine States of Conscious- 
ness. Further, following the immediate period of human birth 
into this world, again the processes become manifest in 
month-units and year-units of our life, as we recognize such. 

Between the figures one and ought are comprized all the 
known figures of the numerical system from one to nine; con- 
sequently, this one and ought (or 10) State of Consciousness 
sequentially writes its name Conservation. Again, applying 
such processes to those processes which we the more aptly 
humanly observe, the 10th month, following upon the month 
of issuance from the mother womb, is for both mother and 
child a period of rest, recuperation, conservation. Also wit- 
ness the 10 commandments, conserved on two tablets of stone; 
the 10 fingers and toes ending, or conservingj the limbs of the 
body. 

Consciousness State number 11, automatically and pri- 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 25 

marily derives its designation from the repetition of the 
figures one and one (n), which figures in all mathematical 
demonstration wherein used call for repetitive processes. To 
multiply by the number eleven, we write the two figures to be 
multiplied as a result, then place between such two figures 
the "repeated," or added together, figures themselves. Thus, 

33 times 11 is — 3 and — 3~\-3, or 6, and 3; or 363. 

34 times 1 1 is — 3 and — 3 -[-4, or 7, and 4; or 374. 

and so forth. So this nth State of Consciousness becomes 
classified in our list of Consciousness States as Repetition, or 
Re-volution. 

In this connection it is interesting corroboratively to recall 
that the sealed hour of the cyclean Revolution, called the 
World War, just witnessed, was signalized in a document be- 
coming effective on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the 
eleventh month, of that year whose numerals read 7-9-7-8. 

The 1 2th State of Consciousness is obviously written in- 
turning, or Involution. Witness the 12 hours of the day; the 
12 inches to the foot measure; the 12 apostles; the 12 degrees 
of the diatonic scale; the 12 stepping stones across the River 
Jordan; the 12 months of the year; the 12 foundations of the 
new Jerusalem; the 12 members of the jury; — all suggesting 
to us a state of in-drawing, in-turning, or In-volution. At 
this period of life, the pupil or child, as is known generally to 
teacher and parent becomes ruminative, such inturning often 
manifesting itself in moodiness, brooding, or so-called "ab- 
sent-mindedness." It was symbolically, too, at this age of 
12 years that the child, Jesus, turned from His parents into 
the temple where was learning, so that those parents had 
much ado to find Him again. 

It is to be regarded in the enumerating of these States of 
Consciousness, that having passed the ninth unit, the pro- 
cesses leading to which are the more apparent to our so-called 
physical senses, we are now arrived in the realm of the in- 



26 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

tangible, wherein we can prove such things as we can neither 
taste, touch, nor smell, only by that process of demonstra- 
tion known as the Process of Elimination. Nevertheless, these 
States of Consciousness have so in-written themselves on our 
knowledge during the four thousandodd years of our believed- 
in national, economic life, that in general the very mention of 
the numeral of such State conveys its meaning almost with- 
out the necessity of further elucidation. 

Thus, automatically the mention of the number 13 suggests 
to us the State of Parturition, — of separation, of death, 
of going forth. The Last Supper witnessed 13 at the table, 
which supper foreran the expiation at Golgotha. But, and 
showing too that only the merest thread really divides the 
polarities of what we call life, the 13th month becomes the 
period wherein the gentle, nourishment-giving kine of 
the field produce their young. Thus write we the 13th State 
of Consciousness the State of Consciousness of Parturition, 
which suggests Birth or Separation to us as do we think of 
such. 

The 14th process is admittedly the period of re-creation. 
At the age of 14 puberty asserts itself. The three periods of 14 
each, as told in the genealogy of Jesus the Christ, mark the 
three epochs in history to such time. The 14 stages of the 
Cross record the stations whereby the Passenger traversed 
the route to his re-creative processes. Thus 14 becomes 
designated in our list of Consciousness States as Re-crea- 
tion. 

Immediately following this period of Re-creation, which 
is numerically arrived at by the addition of two sevens, 
or Mutations, we automatically come to a State of Loca- 
tion, stability, permanency; and so again, without incredu- 
lous analysis, this State of Consciousness names itself the 
State of Location, having arrived at such state by a process 
of mounting five courses of threes, or 15, — that is, five pro- 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 27 

cesses of construction (3) aggregating a permanency, even as 
the Great Pyramid, the place of Location of presentation of 
the active and reactive laws of the earth, in its construction 
has five exterior sides, and as has the King's Coffer also five 
external sides. 

Thus, located, or established, the next Conscious move- 
ment would be in the nature of function purely; and so to this 
State, wherein in mortal thought-processes the functioning 
of sex-impulse becomes first generally manifest, we logically 
assign the name Function. 

The 17th period of life may be said to witness the process of 
choice on our parts toward the continuance of education at 
some University, or similar institution, or towards entrance 
into the field of labor or business, or profession. Also, the nu- 
meral 17 is rich in allusions concerning tuitional choice. In 
the year 2-/7-0, as stated by the stars and by itself, the 
Great Pyramid presented its lore to mortal man for the un- 
raveling. In the latter part of the century bearing the numer- 
al 17 the King's Chamber of the Pyramid was discovered, 
by the then British Consul at Algiers. In the year 77-76 was 
born that country which announced itself as for the Father- 
hood of God in its acknowledgment of the Brotherhood of 
man in that famous document, known as the Declaration of 
Independence of the 13 original States of the United States, 
on which is engraved a large reproduction of the Great Pyra- 
mid with the All-seeing Eye over it, and which declares that, 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, 
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, 
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." 

Finally, in the year 19-/7 this same country of the United 
States of America entered the World War to make good those 
words captioned by the Great Pyramid with the All-seeing 
Eye over it. Therefore, this 17th State of Consciousness may 



28 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

without hesitation be named the State of Tuition, and as 
real learning is purely volitional, such State also may be 
classed the State of Inclination, or Selection. 

At the eighteenth period of mortal year life co-ordination 
asserts itself, and at such age we legally allow to the woman 
the choice of natural selection, adjudging her thereby suf- 
ficiently co-ordinate to become mistress of her own actions, 
although we pay the male the compliment of assigning a 
three-year later period as the probable time of his ability to 
take care of himself. The 18th State of Consciousness then 
becomes the State of Co-ordination, or Co-operation. 

Volitionally, we have now scaled the entire courses of 
masonry chromatically, — that is, in Harmony, which is 
truthfully. So that this last State of Consciousness going to 
complete the Great Pyramid's "pitch" names itself the State 
of Volition. This State is also manifested in our year-periods 
of mortal life, for therein at the age of 19 we are first generally 
allowed somewhat of free choice in the matter of our future 
habits and our present desires. 

Thus, numerizing and classifying the "pitch" of the Ark, 
as demonstrated in the Chromaticism of 19 degrees of Con- 
sciousness, we write: 

Consciousness State 

No. 1: Life (Being). 
2: Relation. 
3: Construction. 
4: Generation. 
5: Comprehension. 
6: Attraction. 
7: Mutation. 
8: Completion. 
9: Evolution. 
10: Conservation. 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 29 

11: Revolution. 
12: Involution. 
13: Parturition. 
14: Recreation. 
15: Location. 
16: Function. 
17: Tuition. 
18: Co-ordination. 
19: Volition. 

It has been stated before in this work, and is of course at 
once apparent, that the figures one and ought (10) compre- 
hend, or conserve, between them all and entire of our nu- 
merical system of figures, and that all other combinations of 
figures are merely repetitions of such figures sequentially 
from one to ought. Hence, it should follow that, reading 
such figures as one and one, one and two, and so forth, these 
combinations should be self-corroborative of the Conscious- 
ness States of each numeration. In the application of this 
test, the nine original States of Consciousness, from Life to 
Evolution, of course stand as numbered singly, and Con- 
sciousness State number 10 being the Consciousness State 
of Conservation, we start our test logically with the num- 
ber eleven, which for purposes of this illustration we consider 
one and one. 

Consciousness State No. 1 1 : One and one (foretelling Rela- 
tionship, two), Life-Being, or 
Life re-voluting about itself: 
Re-volution. 

Consciousness State No. 12: One and two (foretelling Con- 
struction, three), Life-Relat- 
ing, or Life turning in on itself: 
In-volution. 



3 o THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Consciousness State No. 13:0^ and three (which tells of 

Generation, four), Life-Con- 
structing: Birth or Partur- 
ition. 

Consciousness State No. 14: One and four (foretelling Com- 
prehension, five), Life-Gener- 
ating: Creation, and Re-crea- 
tion. 

Consciousness State No. 15: One and five (foretelling Attrac- 
tion, six), Life-Including, or 
Life-Comprehending: Loca- 
tion, Under-standing. 

Consciousness State No. 16: One and six (foretelling Muta- 
tion, seven), Life-Attracting: 
Functioning, Function. 

Consciousness State No. 17: One and seven (foretelling Com- 
pletion, eight), Life-Mutating: 
Tuition, Selection. 

Consciousness State No. 18: One and eight (foretelling Evolu- 
tion, nine), Life-Completing: 
Co-ordination, or co-operation: 
Co-ordination. 

Consciousness State No. 19: One and nine (foretelling Con- 
servation, ten, the starting point 
and finish, for the first shall al- 
ways be last and the last first), 
Life-Evolutional: and as pro- 
cess of issuance with the babe 
from the womb, the chick from 
the shell, the martyr from cross 
and stake, must always be 
purely volitional, — Volition. 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 31 

Thus the analysis and synthesis of those States of Conscious- 
ness as the scale of the building of the Great Pyramid. 
Finally, at the risk of becoming tedious in the repetitive elu- 
cidation of what is so utterly obvious, but to substantiate 
the statement that the Great Pyramid and Holy Bible are in 
utter agreement on these States of Consciousness, and by 
such substantiation to acknowledge the truth of that Free- 
Masonic statement, before cited, that without Holy Bible 
and Square and Compass (the tools of the Pyramid Builder) 
there is no Lodge, it becomes necessary to look for a cor- 
roboration of these Pyramidal States of Consciousness in the 
Holy Bible, and for this purpose the account of creation 
therein should, if anywhere, furnish the necessary data. 

Turning to the first Book of the Bible, and the first chapter 
of such Book, we read: 

In the beginning God created 
the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis i [Life]: i [Life] 

As there is no mention in this verse of aught but Life itself, 
we are justified in naming this first State of Creation as 
nothing other than Life. 
And in the following verse: 

And the earth was without 
form, and void; and darkness 
was upon the face of the deep. 
And the Spirit of God moved 
upon the face of the waters. 

Genesis i [Life]: i [Relating] 

The first sentence of this verse states of mere existence; but 
finally, of action, or movement, following upon this mere ex- 
istence to correlate the same. Therefore, Creation names this 
second State of its activities, Relation. 

From this verse to verse 6 (Attraction) of this chapter we 



32 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

now read of the various activities of relativity in division and 
subdivision; but at verse 6 (twice three) we read: 

And God said. Let there 

be a firmament in the midst of 

the waters, 

Genesis i [Life]: 6 [Attracting] 

Thus this third State of its activities Creation names Con- 
struction. 

In the verse just prior to this, as in regularly intervaled 
and sequentially numerated periods, we read: 

. . . . And the evening and 
the morning were the first day. 

Genesis i [Life]: 5 [Comprehending] 

The word night, the period of darkness, being so emphatically 
left out of this account of Creation wherein is morning made a 
continuance of evening, it is as though the Holy Bible and 
Great Pyramid refused to take any account of such period 
as darkness. And as Darkness is the father of ignorance, 
blindness, and consequent mistakes, it is as though Bible 
and Pyramid reiterated, Here are no mistakes in our pre- 
sentation, for "Every good and every perfect gift .... 
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no 
variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1 [Life, 
Light]: 17 [Tuition]. 

Now from verse 6 [Attraction] to verse 10 [Conservation] 
we read simply of the construction of the firmament as water 
and land; until we come to verse 1 1 [Re-volution], wherein we 

read: 

And God said, Let the earth 
bring forth grass, the herb 
yielding seed, and the fruit tree 
yielding fruit after his kind, 
whose seed is in itself, upon the 
earth: and it was so. 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 33 

Obviously the period, or State, of the Consciousness of 
Bringing-forth, Generation. 

From verses 12 to 19, inclusive, is the account of the com- 
prehending all Creation with Light, encircling the same with 
lights in both periods of day and night; so that this Con- 
sciousness of Creation names itself Comprehension. 

From verse 20 on, we read now of a period of the sexing of 
creation, and the divisions of such into species, culminating 
with verse 22 [Relation], wherein are we told: 

And God blessed them, say- 
ing, Be fruitful, and multiply, 
and fill the waters in the seas, 
and let fowl multiply in the 
earth. 

And finally the crowning of Creation, read of in verses 26 
[Relation-Attractive] and 27 [Relation-Mutative] : 

And God said, Let us 
make man in our image, after 
our likeness: and let them 
have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of 
the air, and over the cattle, and 
over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creep- 
eth upon the earth. 

So God created man in his 
own image, in the image of God 
created he him; male and 
female created he them. 

These verses 22-26-27 are so obvious in their expression of 
Like attracting to Like, that obviously this State of Crea- 
tional Consciousness writes itself the State of Attraction. 
Thus, in the first chapter of the first book of the Holy Bible, 
the Chapter of Life (1) and Book of Life (1), we find a 



34 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

succinct number of States of Consciousness recorded thus: 

Consciousness State 

No. i: Life: Being. 

2: Relation of that Life. 
3: Construction by that Life. 
4: That Life Generating. 
5: That Life all-lighted, Comprehension. 
6: That Life gathered in species, or brought 
together; Like to Like; Attraction. 

Continuing, Biblically, we read in Genesis, chapter 2 (Rela- 
tion), verse 1 (Life), — that is, now, the Relativity produced 
by Life — made Alive, .... 

Thus the heavens and the 
earth were finished, and 
all the host of them. 

And in verse 2 of chapter 2, — [Relativity related, or ac- 
complished], — 

And on the seventh day 

God ended his work which he 

had made; and he rested on 

the seventh day from all his 

work which he had made. 

Thus, Creation inter-related, this State of Consciousness im- 
mediately following now records itself as Mutation, or 
Change. For as the word "night" is, as already remarked, 
emphatically omitted from the story of God's activities 
creatively, — darkness being produced solely by the removal 
of Light therefrom, and again, in the account of the creation 
of Light, dispelled thereby, — it is patent that the word 
"day" is intended to refer to a continuous period of action, 
or State of Consciousness, rather than to a subdivision of 
weekly time; a deduction further confirmed in the 5th [Com- 
prehension] verse of the 1st [Life] chapter of Genesis: 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 35 

And God called the light 
Day, and the darkness he called 
Night. And the evening and 
the morning were the first day. 

Here, again, is night most obviously omitted from the ac- 
count of the activities of Him who, watching over Israel, 
"neither slumbers nor sleeps." So that, as plainly as 
can be stated, the word "day" is used in the account of all 
Creation as referring to a State, or period, of activity; and as 
the activities of God are manifestly purely mental, and not of 
the nature of manual labor, such "day" registers itself un- 
questionably as a State of Consciousness. 

The Seventh State of Consciousness, then, according to the 
account of Creation as told in the Holy Bible, records itself as 
the Consciousness of Mutation. And as this State is recorded 
at once as completing God's activities of Creation, the sub- 
sequent Eighth State of Consciousness, wherein was given to 
Adam the naming of God's creation, thereby setting the seal 
on the work, as it were, the only term possible to such State 
of Consciousness is Completion. 

At the ninth period of the events of the World's history 
(the number of the period of issuance from the mother womb) 
we become apprised, following the creation of man, of the 
sending forth of the rivers to encompass and water the land so 
that the latter may re-create itself; whereby this Ninth State 
of Consciousness is named Issuance, or E-volution. (It was 
the Ninth Hour on the Cross which signalized the process of 
Evolution therefrom, in blood and water.) And, as in the im- 
mediately following State of the activities of Creation we 
learn that these Rivers encompassed the Garden, we again 
corroborate our Tenth (10) State of Consciousness Biblically 
with the name Conservation. 

Here, then, we have traversed our horizontal course of 
masonry, which in the Great Pyramid is 10 feet in length, and 



36 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

have arrived at the State of Conservation, between the figures 
numerating which are all the known numerals to us, from I 
to 9. And as subsequent numerals become simply repetitive 
combinations of these first nine figures, out of respect to the 
reader's patience it is here assumed that sufficient corrobor- 
ation of Pyramidal "pitch" has been afforded by the activ- 
ities of Creation as told in the first and second chapter of 
the first book of that work which we call Holy Bible. 

The name of Solomon, — sometime King of Israel, — stands 
pre-eminently to all men, — even such as have never inter- 
ested themselves in the Biblical history of this famous 
monarch, — as the synonym of Wisdom. The exact time of the 
reign of this sovereign is a matter of grave theological dispute 
to this day, but it is generally accepted that he built "the 
Temple." 

In verse 17 (Tuition) of the 9th [Evolution] chapter of 
1 Kings, is stated, — 

And Solomon built Gezer, 



This same statement occurs also in the 15th [Location] verse 
of this same chapter. Gezer, or Gezeh, happens to be the 
name of that group of three Pyramids of which the Great 
Pyramid is the central building, and the King's Chamber in 
which, as well as the King's Coffer in the King's Chamber in 
which, correspond exactly in cubit measurement to the Ark of 
the Tabernacle, and the Molten Sea, in the Temple which 
King Solomon is accredited with building. Further, a com- 
parison of descriptions of the building of the Temple will be 
found to compare severally and jointly with the dimensions of 
the Great Pyramid, which latter structure it is scientifically 
admitted was designed and constructed for just such purpose 
as Solomon's Temple was obviously intended for. It is also 
clearly stated, in the account of this same building of the 
Temple by Solomon, that there was heard in such activities 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 37 

incidental to the Temple's erection no sound of hammer or 
axe, or any tool necessary to the building of such a structure 
as that told of literally in the descriptions of the building of 
Solomon's Temple. 

And the house, when it was 

in building, was built of stone 

made ready before it was 

brought thither: so that there 

was neither hammer nor axe 

nor any tool of iron heard in 

the house, while it was in 

building. 

1 Kings: 6 [Attraction, or Double Construction] 

If the sound of hammer, axe, and the tools of building were 
not heard during the process of building, it is hardly suppos- 
able that they would be heard merrily ringing away in busy 
activity after the building was completed and dedicated. All 
of which, of course, argues that the House of the Lord, which 
we conceive to be the Temple built by Solomon, was of a dif- 
ferent timber, or timbre, than that literally described in such 
obvious detail in the Holy Bible, — was in fact more "mason- 
ically" constructed than that wooden building that we imag- 
ine the Temple of Solomon. 

However, leaving such argument to come up in its proper 
place in this work, suffice it for the moment that the building 
of this Temple and the King's house are said in the 9th 
[Evolutional] chapter of the first Book of Kings, — which 
chapter tells of the birth of the completed building, following 
upon its dedication in the preceding chapter [Completion], 
— to have occupied the space of twenty years; and as Solo- 
mon is to this day synonymous with Wisdom, we must logi- 
cally suppose those twenty years to have been wisely ex- 
pended, and to have been necessary to construction of such 
magnitude. 



38 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

The Great Pyramid, as has been stated, scales to its height 
of 5822 earth-commensurated inches by a series of masonry 
courses, which courses give to it its timbre, or tone. These 
courses, as has also been stated, are constructed of large 
blocks of stone, being laid over each other upward on a scale 
of 10 feet of horizontal for every 9 feet of perpendicular, 
wherefrom was conceived the degrees of the Chromatic scale 
of music, and from which, as corroborated by Holy Bible, 
have we in this offering drawn the classification of our Nine- 
teen States of Consciousness. To this scale of 10-9 (19), the 
Great Pyramid squares the circle; which is to say, that its 
height, used as the radius of a circle, would describe a sphere 
whose circumference would be equal to the four sides of the 
square base of the Great Pyramid. In other words, using the 
Great Pyramidal figure as that of a compass (which it is), an 
encompass could be drawn by such compass, using such com- 
pass height as the radius of the encompass, as would equal 
spherically the lineal measurement of four lines correspond- 
ing to the base of which this compass was the height. 

Now the Great Pyramid, as it stands, is a building ob- 
viously yet incomplete, inasmuch as its chief corner stone, its 
capstone, is missing. By the use of the word chief in this con- 
nection, the Bible evidently intends to convey just what such 
word signifies, — topmost, or most important, stone; and 
this stone, we are told in the New Testament, as well as in 
the Old Testament, was rejected of the builders. And as the 
weight of this stone is specifically referred to as of measure 
sufficient to "grind to powder that on which it falls," it is ob- 
viously too heavy to have been blown from its lofty chief 
place by windstorm, or removed therefrom by prowling 
Dervish. Consequently, we are by process of elimination 
obliged to assume that the expression "rejected" is the sole 
explanation of its absence from the whole structure. 

And, indeed, when one comes to carefullv consider "rejec- 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 39 

tion" in its fullness, it is the very essential to "acceptation." 
It was by the "rejection" of the Nazarene that His teaching 
came to have Universal "acceptation"; the "rejection" of a 
lover but incites the latter to greater efforts toward "accep- 
tation"; the "rejection" of the "juice" by the compactness of 
the electrical coil but incites the former to brighter and hot- 
ter effort. 

Generally, therefore, there are three motives governing our 
rejection of an object or subject; — because its cost in effort or 
measure is felt to be unwarranted (even as the rich young 
man in Scriptures rejected the Cross offered him by Jesus), or 
through ignorance of the value of the object or subject of- 
fered, or so that its very absence may call attention to such 
object or subject more loudly than could its presence. And 
when one stops to consider even remotely the marvels of the 
Great Pyramid's geometrizing and orientation, its situation, 
and the fact that its vast mass of masonry is built of sub- 
stances that no discovered quarries in that land afford, it 
seems painfully obvious that the builders of such left the 
chief corner stone off the summit of the building for only such 
sufficient reason as that this "rejection" would call attention 
to that corner stone by its very absence from the place where 
evidently it was designed to be. 

Wherefore, if such reason induced the builders to "reject" 
such corner stone, it is equally obvious that their purpose of 
calling special attention to the same could only be accom- 
plished by placing it at some obvious where in the vicinity of 
the structure, whereby the searcher for knowledge would, 
guided by Wisdom, be likely to look for the same. 

Practically just before the Great Pyramid, facing such on- 
coming seeker for Knowledge, is the silent, ever-watchful 
figure of the Sphinx, the "eternal riddle." This figure of the 
Sphinx, so called, is upon a base, which base if lifted thereon 
would be found to fit in place as the capstone, or chief corner 



4 o THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

stone, of the Great Pyramid. But the placing of such thereon 
would either destroy the TT {pi) value given by the Great 
Pyramid's squaring of the circle, or change the number of its 
timbre, the Chromatic scale of its being. 

Now, referring to the fact that, as was shown in Part One 
(The Flower of Egypt) of this offering, the unit of measure- 
ment in the Great Pyramid has been scientifically accepted 
as identical with the standard year measure, — that is an 
inch, or foot, for a year, — it is interesting to note that Solo- 
mon the Wise took twenty years in the building of the Lord's 
and the King's house, for when the rejected corner stone of 
the Building is in place the Pyramid can not square the circle 
to the given number of its courses unless the measurements of 
such are changed. And this change automatically suggests it- 
self to become 10 feet level to 10 feet of rise. That is, a foot is 
to be added to each separate course, whereby the 19 Chro- 
matic scale would become a 20 Chromatic scale. Also, in line 
with this, it is perfectly known that master composers of 
"grand" music have long labored under the impression that 
another degree could profitably be added to the already 
known 19 degrees of the musical scale. 

Thus, as the former builders of the Great Pyramid rejected 
the chief cornerstone, let it here receive recognition; and in 
honor to the Inspirer of all Knowledge, let such State become 
named in our list by natural process as Godhead, the State 
perfect of Realization; for without Realization could such 
corner stone never become known to man, and without 
Realization would be neither corner stone nor man. 

Thus, finally, do the completed States of Consciousness 
announce themselves, — 

Consciousness State 

No. 1 : Life, Being. 
1: Relation. 
3: Construction. 



SONG OF THE MORNING STARS 41 

4: Generation. 

5: Comprehension. 

6: Attraction. 

7: Mutation. 

8: Completion. 

9: Evolution. 
10: Conservation. 
11: Re-volution. 
12: In-volution. 
13: Parturition. 
14: Re-creation. 
15: Location. 
16: Function. 
17: Tuition (Direction). 
18: Co-ordination (Co-operation). 
19: Volition. 
20: Realization. 
Or, as was previously done, when the first numeral of the 
combined numerals after that of 10 was considered always 
as Life-i, Life-2, etc., — 

Consciousness State 
No. 1: Life is expressed by 11: Revolution. 

2: Relation is expressed by 12: Involution. 

3: Construction is expressed by 13: Parturition 

(Birth). 
4: Generation is expressed by 14: Re-creation. 
5: Comprehension is expressed by 15: Location 

(Place of 5-pointed Star). 
6: Attraction is expressed by 16: Function. 
7: Mutation, Transition, is expressed by 17: Tui- 
tion, Direction. 
8: Completion is expressed by 18: Co-ordination. 
9: Evolution is expressed by 19: Volition. 
And last, 



42 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Consciousness State No. 20: Realization. 

But Life, which is Re-volution, is itself Realization. So 
that the identities of God, Father, and the Christ, become, as 
said Jesus, "one," for the first becomes last, and the last first, 
as said John in Revelation 1 (Life): 11 (Revolution): 

Saying, I am Alpha and 
Omega, the first and the last: .... 
and, 

I am Alpha and Omega, the 
beginning and the ending, saith 
the Lord, .... 

Revelation 1 [Life]: 8 [Completion] 

Thus, with God, Father, acknowledged in the Building of 
Life, is that structure complete, at which completion, spake 
God to his servant Job, the song of the morning stars was 
heard, — Melody, Harmony, and Counter-Point. 

Whereupon are the founda- 
tions thereof fastened? or 
who laid the corner stone 
thereof; 
Job 38 [Completion]: 6 [Double Construction] 

When the morning stars 
sang together, and all the 
sons of God shouted for joy? 
Job 38 [Completion]: 7 [Transition — Joy] 



CHILDREN OF WORD 



Ill 

.... and all the 

sons of God shouted for joy. 
Job 38 [Completion: Transition — Joy] 

THUS Far in this offering has been unfolded the petals 
of the Flower of Egypt by the song of the Morning 
Star of Divine Science; and it is now that the sons of 
God should give forth their paean of joy at the completion of 
the Building. But who, then, are these sons of God? And, 
first, Who, or What, is God? So again does it become neces- 
sary to revert to the Holy Bible for the necessary informa- 
tion, trusting to the Great Pyramid for numerical confirma- 
tion of what the Holy Bible reveals. 

In the first verse [Life] of the first chapter [Life] of the 
Gospel according to St. John, we read this brief statement: 

In the beginning was the 
Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was 
God. 

A statement so succinct, so clear, so singly purposeful, so ap- 
parent, so utterly and emphatically capitalized as to its 
direct message, as to be beyond the realm of controversy, 
cavil, or sophistry. You may accept this statement, or you 
may decline, or reject it; but whichever you do must be done 
wholly, in toto, for you can neither expunge from it one jot or 
tittle of what it says, nor read into it any other interpretation. 
Three statements in one, even as the wondrous Trinity of 
God, it stands impossible of alteration or misconstruction. No 
hand of vandal can remove it from the triune building in 
which it is set, no ruthless hand, guided by ignorant thinking, 
tunnel into the treasure it contains. Thus stands it triunely, 
impossible of alteration, violation, or misinterpretation, a 
pillar and an edifice to the Lord of hosts in the midst of the 



46 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

land, even as its triune expression in the midst of the earth, 
the Great Pyramid. So, then, in the unfolding of the Flower 
of Knowledge and Wisdom, we are at once possessed of three 
short, perfectly formed and complete sentences in the plainest 
and most unmistakable of words, that, — omitting the little 
conjunctive "and," — 

In the beginning was the Word. 
The Word was with God. 
The Word was God. 

Observing this writing analytically, as well as synthetically, 
we at once become conscious of the repeated use of the word 
"Word," and of its repeated capitalization. From such obser- 
vation it becomes also at once apparent to our consciousness 
that by such capitalization the author of these sentences has 
endeavored to draw particular attention therein to this one 
word, "Word," which he so succinctly states was in the 
beginning, was with God, and was God. Mark, he does not 
say that The Word was in the beginning, was with God, and 
was God, nor that The word, nor TFIE word, was in the 
beginning, was with God and was God, for to have so written 
his statements would have been to convey to his reader that 
some one sound, uttered in the realm of mystery perhaps, 
certainly unknown to the majority of His Children, was in 
the beginning, was with God, and was God. No; John states 
clearly that the Word, — W-o-r-d, — that means by which 
we communicate with one another, was in the beginning, 
was with God, and was God. No other interpretation will 
satisfy this text. 

In Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, Mary 
Baker Eddy has defined "Beginning" as being "the only", 
and as no definition superseding this of Mary Baker Eddy's 
can be offered for a fact in the realm of Consciousness, 
where "Beginning" is automatically "Ending", and vice 



CHILDREN OF WORD 47 

versa, so that there is in reality neither Ending nor Beginning, 
we may pass from the first two statements in this verse just 
quoted, and proceed to the third statement as a basis for 
inquiry as to Who, or What, is God, — 

". . . . and the Word was God." 

What, then, is W-o-r-d? 

Pythagoras, student and product of the esoteric Amasis, 
of Egypt, advanced the theory that W-o-r-d sustained the 
difference between man and beast-of-the-field; and with 
such Pythagorean dismissal of the subject man appears to 
have been content to allow the question to rest during the 
years of his decline downwards toward the mouth of the 
Bottomless Pit. But the question of the origin, and the quo 
vadis y of man still insisting to the perplexity of the wise ones 
of this world, from time to time abortive attempts have been 
efforted to answer this question. Finally, Pythagoras to the 
contrary notwithstanding, a modern, — very modern, — 
psychologist and Professor of Philosophy has advanced the 
theory that the difference between man and beast-of-the 
field lies primarily in the ability of the former to fashion 
tools wherewith to express himself in toil. 

This definition of difference, which at first blush appears 
feasible, when examined in the microscopic light of cold 
fact rather puts man to the blush; for the bird, with its 
wings, can certainly outflight the aeronaut; the spider, with 
his tools of excision and incision, equal the skill of surgical 
science; the beaver, with his claws and little stump tail, 
out-Herod the best endeavors of the civil engineer; the 
snake, with his long, sensitive, forked tongue receive and 
transmit messages that neither Marconigraph nor seismo- 
graph could record; and, the bee, without aid of woolsack 
and ermine, pen or parchment, give and enforce a system of 
communal laws and business principles that not the most 



48 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

advanced civic government in the world, nor the greatest 
trust concern therein, may rival. These facts of animal life, — 
a few out of the myriad illustrations of the expressions in 
species of such, — all susceptible of proof, and obvious to the 
merest observation, are so generally known and accepted as 
to call for no further substantiation than the mere state- 
ment of such invoked. 

So it seems after all that it is to the Pythagorean deduction 
as to the value of W-o-r-d we must turn, and in support of 
such testimony it is easily apparent that whereas every 
beast of the field, — all beast life that is, — can give expression 
to one or more of the sounds that go to the fulfillment of that 
which we know as W-o-r-d, it is to man alone that has been 
given the whole and intelligent use of W-o-r-d; even as when 
the Lord God brought before Adam all beasts of the field, 
every creeping thing, all fish of the sea, and fowl of the air, 
that he might call each by name, and so have dominion over 
them and over the whole earth. 

In this first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, 
then, and the very first verse therein, we learn Who and 
What God is, and that by virtue of the power vested in 
Himself (Word), He (Word) performed His creation, even 
as His creation man performs his acts of re-creation, or re- 
membering, by this same process of saying the name of the 
thing to be re-created, or re-membered, and it is allowed so. 
For when God (Word) performed creation we are told that 
He did so by the use of Word, — "let there be", whatever 
was the particular creation then undergoing formation, and 
"there was", or "it was so." Until, having completed the 
creation of those things destined to be without the knowledge 
of the use of w-o-r-d, He (Word) created that, His son, which 
was so preeminently to use expressed w-o-r-d as the means 
of intelligent expression, and alas! to attempt to degrade it, 
too, into the language of the intercommunication of swine. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 49 

And God [Word] said, Let us 
make man in our image, after 
our likeness: and let them 
have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of 
the air, and over the cattle, and 
over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creep- 
eth upon the earth. 

Genesis i [Life]: 26[Double Construction] 

W-o-r-d is composed of several symbols, or integers. Logi- 
cally it would be spoken of in the plural. Moreover, is God 
(Word) one separate, distinct sound only, — He who created 
all good, and without whom was not anything made that 
was made? 

So God [Word] created man in his [Word's] 
own image, in the image of God [Word] 
created he [Word] him [Word's Integer]; male and 
female created he [Word] them [Word's Integers]. 

Genesis i [Life]: 27 [Transition — Joy] 

Lo! God's own statement that he created his image and like- 
ness male-and-female, and called such man, giving to man 
equi-dominion over all the earth and the fullness thereof? 
Where then the boasted superiority of man over woman? 
Where vaunted national supremacy? Where the dominion 
of color over color? It would seem that the articles of the 
League of Nations, of Universal Suffrage, and the per- 
plexing race and color questions of today, had one and all 
been written in a document dated at least some thousands 
of years before these questions could arise, or before poli- 
ticians had been able to frame written statements in search 
of signatories thereto. One little, short verse in the first Book 
of the Bible, in all just 22 plain, easily comprehensible words, 
counting in the italic also, and behold! the entire platform of 
the League of Nations already sealed, signed, and delivered; 



5 o THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

the Suffrage Bill already in force; and the Asiatic and Negro 
questions forever settled under the title, Sonship of God is 
Brotherhood of Man. For, says the first [Life] verse of the 
nth [Re- volution, — Life-Being] chapter of Genesis, — 

And the whole earth was of 
one language, and of one 
speech. 

No possibility of any other rendition here, also, any more 
than a possibility of national or intercommunal differences. 
Man expresses himself in symbol. When he thinks table, 
he does not build an automobile and call it aeroplane. When 
he produces, he produces in symbol, or form-likeness, that 
which he thinks, — "as a man thinketh, so is he." Con- 
sequently, in producing a written language he would produce 
such in symbolism of his thought, or sound, language. Now 
if there is one particular suggestion that is harped on over 
and over again in the Bible, from Genesis of the Old Testa- 
ment to Revelation of the New Testament, it is that the 
Sin of the Ages has been, and is, an attempted anthropo- 
morphization of God, — the effort to locate him in the flesh 
parts of Egypt, — in gold, in the appurtenances of what we 
believe power and might, in the form that seems to invite 
the sensual desire, — in short to express God (Word) other 
than as W-o-r-d, which obviously leads immediately to a 
confusion worse confounded of tongues. Yet if God (Word) 
was, and is, W-o-r-d, as stated so positively by St. John; if 
God (Word) created male and female in his likeness, after 
his own image calling such plural creation man; if the "whole 
earth was of one language and one speech, "then the symbols 
of Word must logically express Word's creation, man. And 
as we have nowhere else to look for an accepted account of 
the creation of man, we must perforce turn to the Holy 
Bible for authenticity on this subject. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 51 

Already have we read of the account of man as made in 
the likeness, after the image, of Word. Let us then turn to 
the story of the Sin of Man, — the attempted anthropomor- 
phization of God (Word), — whereby did man become mortal- 
ized, we are told, that is to say, a visible, or apparent, 
mortally five-sensed entity. And herein, in this 3rd (Con- 
struction) chapter of Genesis do we find the first indication 
of our written alphabet symbolically, which written alpha- 
bet would be the written expression of Word, or its attempted 
anthropomorphization. 

This story opens with an immediate suggestion by a 
serpent, which serpent, we are told, was more subtil than any 
beast of the field, that the woman eat of the tree which was 
in the midst of the garden, and of the fruit of which tree 
both man and woman were forbidden to eat. Obviously, 
here is a point to be well considered before proceeding 
further, — that whereas God (Word) allowed this tree to be in 
the midst of the Garden, and consequently in plain and daily 
sight of His (Word's) integers, he forbade them to taste of 
the fruit thereof. And as it is impossible to imagine the All- 
Father plotting the ruination of his children, remains but 
the explanation that such tree, while existent, was to remain 
intangible; that is, would only become actual in seemingly 
attempted recreating, or re-im aging. 

And when the woman saw 
that the tree was good for food 
and that it was pleasant to 
the eyes, and a tree to be de- 
sired to make one wise, she 
took of the fruit thereof, and 
did eat, and gave also unto her 
husband with her; and he did 
eat. 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 6 [Attraction] 



52 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

And the eyes of them both 
were opened, and they knew 
that they were naked; and they 
sewed fig leaves together, and 
made themselves aprons. 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 7 [Transition] 

Here we have man, on the inception of his first recorded 
volitional act, seeking to hide himself from the consequences 
of that act, and to hide himself from such consequences by 
the apron, which would logically hide such consequences 
from himself. That is, recognizing by his very nakedness, 
not before perceptible to him, the difference between himself 
and his companion, — separating by marking a difference, as 
it were, — both he and the woman strove to hide such 
knowledge from themselves by covering those very organs 
which would proclaim such knowledge of separation to each. 
And as this information is the very first we have of the 
perceptible W-o-r-d, or "Word made flesh" as St. John 
describes it, the registration of such integers of Word would, 
of course, head the list of the integers of Word, the alphabet. 
Thus do we write the first two symbolic integers of the 
alphabet,- — A and B, — after the fashion in which they were 
written by the attempted anthropomorphization of Word by 
Word's integers, male and female. 



ft 
00 



— the female organ of generation, denoting 
Attraction. 

— the male organ of generation, denoting 
Propulsion, or Expression. 



And as we are informed that simultaneously with the com- 
mission of their first act the eyes of both were opened to the 
perception of their nakedness, 

C — the open eye, Contemplation. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 53 

Then knowing that they were naked, by actual sight now, 
they hid their organs from each other and from themselves 
by the use of aprons, as 

[J — the closed eye, Admonition, Warning. 

For, also, the voice of the Lord God was heard walking in the 
Garden and calling unto the man, who answered It: 

.... I heard thy [Word Apparent] 
voice in the garden, and I was 
afraid, because I was naked; 
and I hid myself [closed my eye]. 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 10 [Conservation] 

And he [Word Apparent] said. Who told thee 
that thou wast naked ? Hast 
thou eaten of the tree, whereof 
I commanded thee that thou 
shouldest not eat? 
Genesis 3 [Construction]: ii [Revolution — Rebellion] 

As it is, of course, impossible to suppose that the All Creator 
could be unaware of any event, there is only the assumption 
left that by this question God (Word) wished a direct state- 
ment from the male integer as to what caused him to see (C) 
outwardly, and which reason, in symbol, the male integer 
proceeds to reiterate his just found knowledge of in the 
words : 

.... The 

woman whom thou [Word Apparent] gavest to be 

with me, she gave me of the 

tree, and I did eat. 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 12 [Involution] 

Which is, The integer "woman," whom I know now to be 
such by her female organ of procreation, she gave me of the 
tree and I did eat. 

Then to the woman the Lord God (Word Apparent) 
addressed a similar question; and whereas the man made 



54 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

answer that the cause of his disobedience was the symbol of 
lustful thought, the woman answered the Lord God 
(Word Apparent), whose integer she is equally with man, 
in the same verse and without a moment's hesitation: 

.... The serpent be- 
guiled me, and I did eat. 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 13 [Parturition] 

Plainly there was no attempt on the woman's part to pro- 
claim the genital organ of the male the cause of her undoing; 
for whereas she was aware of such, as published by her 
seeking to hide knowledge of it from herself and companion, 
she stated the cause of her undoing intelligently to be the 
serpent, — that subtil beast, — which had beguiled her. 

Now, the Serpent since all time has stood as the symbol 
of the teacher of man. The builders of the Pyramid made 
such acknowledgment when they pointed the entrance of 
their Structure of treasured Lore at the tail star of the Con- 
stellation Serpent. Also, if one cares to follow further the 
knowledge of esoteric lore recorded in the Egyptian Book of 
the Dead, — not yet translated wholly, — one will find therein 
an account of the rites of esoteric transition, from world to 
world, to be, or to have been, accomplished by processes of 
the breathing system of the Great Serpent (the python), 
with his ten units of inspired, ten units of held, and ten units 
of expired, breathing, from which the Egyptian esoterics 
membered the word J-O-ver, — /-over, (Jehova). And this 
system of Great-Serpent teaching of the path of transition, 
told in the Book of the Breathings, was in contradistinction 
to the destructive swift formed, and held, breathing system 
of the Hindu, who in emulation of his symbolic cobra seeks 
thus to poison himself out of mortal form. 

Yet it is impossible to suppose that God (Word) mali- 
ciously led His creation astray under the decline of the 



CHILDREN OF WORD 55 

dragon star to the mouth of the Bottomless Pit, nor was it 
God (Word) whom the woman so accused in her swift 
answer, but the subtilty (mark the spelling), or miscon- 
ception of God (Word), whom she sought to locate in the 
flesh parts of Egypt, whereby she produced a continuance of 
the condition to which she had now bounden herself by an 
act of union, attempting to supersede the intelligent unition 
of Intellect and Consciousness wherein only is God (Word) to 
be known. 

Adam's answer was that of one drunken on non-intel- 
lectuality so that the spiritual perception of Intelligence was 
for the time almost wholly removed from him; but the 
woman, — for not yet was she called Eve, the hour of dark- 
ness, — spoke with the true light of full sight, that sight for 
which she had paid, and was to pay, so dearly, (the insight, 
or intuition); and thus was added to the alphabet the letter 

f. — the Eye pierced with the shaft of light, 
Sight, — Evolution, issuance, when spoken of 
intuitively; when extuitively, as in this case 
of the woman's, Projection, Issuance. 

Then the Lord God (Word Apparent), addressing this false 
man-created concept of himself, the subtil serpent, said: 

.... Because thou 
hast done this, thou art cursed 
above all cattle, and above 
every beast of the field; upon 
thy belly shalt thou go, and 
dust shalt thou eat all the 
days of thy life: 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 14 [Re-creation] 

That is, "cursed above all cattle," rendered powerless be- 
cause of dumbness, or the loss of the use of w-o-r-d, and 
"dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life," be fed only 



5 6 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

with that to which mortal flesh, decayed, goes, — re-create 

cannibally upon thy re-creation, or eat thyself. 

Then to the woman He (Word Apparent) said, — and note 

the gentleness of address so apparent in the wordings of 

Word: 

I [Word Apparent] will greatly multiply thy sor- 
row and thy conception; in 
sorrow thou shalt bring forth 
children; and thy desire shall 
be to thy husband, and he 
shall rule over thee. 

Genesis 3 [Construction]: 16 [Function] 

Or, in other language, I (Word Apparent) will magnify thy 
false concept in multiple, — i. e. the sign of crucifixion. In 
sorrow shalt thou keep reproducing thy false thought in 
multiple^ — again the sign of the cross to be lifted by the 
true Cross; and, because of this lust of thine for imaging 
God (Word) where He is not, a male shall always be neces- 
sary to its accomplishment, whereby shall he rule over thee. 

It is said of Jesus that He once, when asked when Sin 
would cease, replied, "When women cease to bear children." 

And then, in the verses immediately following, we have the 
record of the curse of toil, labor, and unholy strife lain upon 
Adam for "all the days of his life," that is for the length of 
his "Adam" life. And, immediately following this, Genesis 
3 [Construction]: 20 [Realization]: 

And Adam called his wife's 
name Eve; because she was 
the mother of all living. 

Although not until the next chapter, succeeding the ejection 

from the Garden, is there any talk of progeny to this union. 

Still, Adam called his wife's name Eve, and eve is the hour 

of gathering darkness; and by this first naming by the now 



CHILDREN OF WORD 57 

dominant male, given to him to accomplish, the symbol of 
the downcast eye, the letter 

/\ — the Eye downcast, — Impotence, Submission, 

is born into the alphabet. 

Then immediately, closing this chapter of sadness and sin, 
we are informed that — 

Unto Adam also and to his 
wife did the Lord God make 
coats of skin, and clothed them. 

Observe analytically the rendition of this just cited verse. 
Not for Adam and his wife, but unto Adam and to his wife, 
were coats of skin made. Saying as plainly as can be said that 
Adam and his wife (integers of Word Apparent) were now 
clothed in mortal vestment, or made flesh,— were mortalized 
and covered with skin. 

Then automatically, and immediately, following the 
mortalization of these integers of Word, — -who themselves 
had just striven by locating Word to make him apparent to 
their perceptible senses, — the Lord God (Word Apparent) 
sent the man, — male and female, — forth from the Garden 
of Eden. And so the letter 

•" — the Eye with the tear issuant: Release- 
^ ment, to become Fruition, 

takes its place as the Seventh (transitional) letter of the 
visual alphabet. 

This transitional state of man, whereby he now passes 
from immortal Life to the mortal concept of life, alphabet- 
ically to the separation of sound from sight, again, even as 
with the story of creation in the first chapter of this Book 
of Genesis, closes this 3rd [Construction] chapter of the 
history of Life, and in the now following 4th [Generative] 
chapter of the history of Life we find the story of the alpha- 



A 



58 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

bet continued as the story of the earth man, or mortal, — 
the integer of Word Apparent now made flesh. 

And Adam knew Eve his 
wife: .... 
Genesis 4 [Generation]: i [Life]: [Earth Life] 

Two figures, standing synthetically in heraldic attitude, 
both joined and separated by the symbol of their downfall, 
can be typified only by the letter 

-Convention, Synthesis. 

Such figures, the mortalized integers of Word Apparent, now 
begin that life of earth generation foretold them by the Lord 
God in the last chapter, and recounted so clearly in the first 
six words, above quoted, from the first verse of this chapter. 
And mark, so apparent in the rendition of this verse, that 
while Adam "knew" the woman now to be Eve his wife, he 
also knew her solely as the wife, the bearer of the symbol of 
her generation by which was she to reproduce him in their 
offspring. Yet God (Word) said that He created man equally 
male and female, in His likeness after His own image, — not 
master and servant, lord and concubine. 

Then follow logically, and in due sequence, even as with 
the Consciousness States, the symbolic expressions of the 
creation of foetal birth and life, in imitation of the Creation 
of Life by the unition of Intellect and Consciousness. 

I — the male organ, symbol of man's assertion of 
superiority — Assertion. 



/ 



-the female "way" of the flight of mortal seed 
into the womb, preserving the notion of the 
Serpent in form-motion, — Tuition, Direction. 



. — the male (in organ symbolism) seeking entrance 
to the figure of the woman, resistant in rigid- 



CHILDREN OF WORD 59 

ity, — the problem of the irresistible force and 
immovable body, — Hesitation, Suspension, fin- 
ally, Attention. 

But this meeting of the two bodies is but momentary, and the 
problem automatically solves itself in the succeeding letter, 
for we now have 

— the male figure of assertion triumphant, the 
"*" symbol of the "way" of flight prostrate in ac- 
quiescence — victory, overcoming, Acquisition. 

And, automatically following on this yielding by the woman, 
as foretold in the curse which she laid upon herself, — 

„/\/\ — symbolizing the limbs of the female receptive to 
the male, — Reception, Acceptation. 

— now the beginning of the married life; the sym- 
bol of the figure of the female with her hand 
resting in expression of her dependence and 
bondage on the shoulder of the male. The 
photographic attitude of bride and bridegroom 
the world over: Adaptation, which is the way 
to Adeptness or Mastery. 

For mark, that adeptness, which is Adaptation, is mastery. 
To be master is to be servant, for he is richest who can give 
most, strongest who can serve longest. The power of mastery 
is in giving, not in taking, and in the yielding we but gain the 
more. Does a tug-of-war team gain its ground by straight 
pulling, or by "giving" with the rope preparatory to a 
stronger pull? Jiu-jitsu, the science of "giving way," teaches 
the art of mastery in yielding. 

and she [Eve] conceived, 

f*\ — the enlarged abdomen of the female; Inclusion, 
Comprehension. (Why, when signifying our 



6o THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 



P 



O 



comprehension do we say, "Oh!" "Oh, yes," or 
"Oh, no,"?) 

— the next development in the course of human 
birth, the breast of the female swelling with its 
secretion of milk in expectation of the coming 
little life, — Expectation, Provision. 

— within the now fully distended abdominal walls 
of protection the flicker of life is comprehended 
in the sanctity of the veil, — Mystification, 
Obscuration, Animation. 



In the 2nd [Relation] chapter of the Book of Genesis, verse 6 
[Attraction], wherein is told for the first time the story of the 
second creation of man, as it were, — that creation in which, 
unlike the image of God (Word) he was formed by process of 
the Lord God's fashioning from the dust of the ground, we 

read: 

But there went up a mist 

from the earth, and watered the 

whole face of the ground. 

In Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, Mary 
Baker Eddy refers to this course of human so-called birth as 
a "mystification." Whereby, on the strength of the same 
word used to describe the same processes in two such testi- 
monies as Holy Bible and Science and Health, with Key 
to the Scriptures, the author of this work is securely content 
to leave that word, "mystification," as wholly descriptive 
of the animation announcing birth, and so-called birth, as 
symbolized by the letter "Q." Yet it is to be borne in mind 
that, as says the Book of Revelation, nothing is hidden but 
shall in the day of the great One be revealed. 



Q 



— now instincting the hour of birth into this world 
of the gathered life beneath the shelter of her 



CHILDREN OF WORD 61 

heart, the mother breast wells with its comple- 
ment of food for her coming young: the breast 
discharging of its fullness for the coming birth, 
— Preparation, Excision. 

and [Eve] bare Cain, and said, I have 
gotten a man from the Lord. 

Genesis 4 [Generation]: i [Life] 

I — the course of foetal descent, birth, which as- 
suming to the female a "snaky feeling," was 
suggested in motion by the false Serpent,— out- 
breathing, or Expiration. But, symbolized in 
the heavens as the Teacher of Man, on which 
astrologically the Great Pyramid of treasured 
Lore orients itself because of inspired Wisdom, 
Inspiration. These two breathings, with the 
held breath, (to be given later), are the secret 
of the ancient Egyptian system of esoterism, — 
(S-o-terism), and demonstrate the difference 
between the Lord God and God, between 
Word-Apparent and Word. 

Observe, too, in this just cited verse from the 4th [Genera- 
tion] chapter of Genesis, that Eve said, when giving birth to 
Cain, that she had gotten a man from the Lord. Here again 
does the story of mortal so-called birth receive confirmation 
in the Bible passages, for the curse as lain on Eve was that 
her desire was to be to her male companion, who by this 
process was to become her Lord and master mortally (see the 
letter "L") and from whom, consequently, she had gotten 
the man child. 



Y 



-and now, " the man from the Lord," born, is the 
automatically following symbol describing the 
next surgical operation, that of tightening 
the umbilical cord to pull away the placenta. 



62 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

This is the end of so-called birth, hence — 
Finality, Limitation, Completion. 

\/ — and then, of course, sequentially, the symbol of 
the cradle, which also the bent arm of the 
mother holding her young makes — Presence, 
Presentation, which at once in this sense be- 
comes synonymous with Dedication. 

This Dedication of an object is an announcement of the pur- 
pose for which it has primarily been established in form. Eve, 
in the annunciation of her first born, dedicated him to, not 
God, but the God whom she had attempted to anthropomor- 
phize, the Lord God. And as a son of the Lord God, Cain 
immediately commenced to comport himself, so that even to 
his mother's conception of God Cain was unacceptable. This 
explains the naming of child, and therewith is its purport 
definitely announced. 

It is historically established that Egypt colonized our 
nationally known world; a fact that also receives corrobora- 
tion in the courses of the Great Pyramid, and in the Holy 
Bible, in which latter account, St. Matthew i [Relation]: 15 
[Location], we are informed that God (Word) said, "Out of 
Egypt have I called my son," and in the 8th [Completion] 
verse of the nth [Revolution] chapter of Revelation wherein 
we read, .... "Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." 
Generally, Egypt, as we know historically of such, was com- 
posed of two governing factions, — its esoterics, and exoterics, 
the former its psychologists, the latter its producers, its oper- 
atives. When Egypt spread forth colonialwise, it was to this 
latter faction that was entrusted this colonizing of the world. 
How these latter prepared to carry out such colonization is 
perhaps best told in the allegoric language of Holy Bible it- 
self, wherein is given a succinct account of the workmanship 
of the Operative Egyptians, who turned logically to the build- 



CHILDREN OF WORD 63 

ing of a city and tower whereby to express their mission in 

life. 

And the whole earth was of 
one language, and of one 
speech. 

Genesis n [Revolution]: i [Life] 

It is written by the ancients, and hinted at by Herodotus, 
that while the latter Egyptian people used the hieroglyph 
(which is really nothing but a system of symbolic, sound, or 
"short hand," writing), the then known esoterics possessed 
another sort of alphabet, religiously guarded from the 
masses, and spoke entirely another language. Also, we know 
the mysteries of even later Egyptian religion to have been 
concerned solely with an One God, the various animal-headed 
gods worshiped by the masses being known by the priests as 
purely attributes of the one God, and allowed to the masses 
as sops to bind them in the ignorance of superstition. And 
that the Egyptian Esoteric paid dearly for this binding of his 
fellow man in ignorance, witness the ruins of his knowledge 

and lore. 

And it carne to pass, as they 
journeyed from the east, that 
they found a plain in the land 
of Shinar; and they dwelt 
there. 

Genesis n [Revolution]: i [Relation] 

The "they" referred to in this just quoted 2nd verse of this 
nth chapter of Genesis is given in the last verse of the pre- 
ceding chapter, — verse 32 [Relation], as, 

.... the families of 

the sons of Noah, after their 

generations, in their nations: 

and by these were the nations 

divided in the earth after the 

flood. 



64 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

As, as has been already shown, the Ark and the Great Pyra- 
mid confirm each other in numerals, and in descriptions of 
incidents and purposes, the only assumption left is that 
Noah, — so far from being a builder skilled enough to erect a 
floating structure capable of accommodating the whole of the 
material earth, — was the Builder of an Ark, "pitched within 
and without," that is so oriented as to accommodate the en- 
tire laws of the Universe, male and female of every sort, even 
as God created such in his likeness and image. Consequently, 
the families of the sons of Noah, the integers of Word Appar- 
ent,were those who "journeyed from the east," — that is, after 
the course of mortal empire, — colonialwise; in short, the Op- 
erative Masons, or Exoterics of Egypt. 

So, arrived at this plain of Shinar, — for they were evi- 
dently on a very different "plain," or "plane," from that of 
Noah and his sons (the Esoterics), — they went at once about 
putting their exoteric knowledge into practice, thus: 

And they said one to an- 
other, Go to, let us make brick, 
and burn them thoroughly. 
And they had brick for stone, 
and slime had they for mortar. 

Genesis 1 1 13 [Construction] 

Which is to say, they produced building materials just as 
dead-weighty, hard, and inelastic as it was possible to make 
such. 

And they said, Go to, let us 
build us a city and a tower, 
whose top may reach unto hea- 
ven; and let us make us a name, 
lest we be scattered abroad up- 
on the face of the whole earth. 

Genesis 1 1 4 [Generation] 

Now, observe, prior to journeying forth from the east, they 
were one of that "whole earth" that was "of one language 



CHILDREN OF WORD 65 

and of one speech," wherefore they must consequently have 
had a name, and a method of intercommunication. Now they 
proposed to make themselves another name, — these men by 
whom were the nations of the earth divided in the earth after 
the flood. 

And the Lord came down 
to see the city and the tower, 
which the children of men 
builded. 

Genesis 11:5 [Comprehension] 

And the Lord said, Behold, 
the people is one, and they have 
all one language; and this they 
begin to do: and now nothing 
will be restrained from them, 
which they have imagined to 
do. 

Genesis 1 1 :6 [Attraction] 

Not, observe, that nothing will be restrained from them, but 
that nothing which they have imaged, or imagined, to do, — in 
other words, no attempted anthropomorphization of which 
they may conceive but they will attempt to carry out. 

Go to, let us go down, and 
there confound their language, 
that they may not understand 
one another's speech. 

Genesis 1 1 :j [Transition] 

So the Lord scattered them 
abroad from thence upon the 
face of all the earth: and they 
left off to build the city. 

Genesis 11:8 [Finish] 

Possibly the gentle naivety of this last line is the most mas- 
terly stroke of 7?z/.f direction in this entire text. For, mark, it 
does not say that they left off from building the city, but to 
build the city. Observe the swing of the pendulum. As they 



66 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

could not express themselves via the straight line, — produced 
by an inelastic, unyielding tower, in metaphor, — and no man 
has ever yet been able to express himself thereby, or even to 
express a straight line, they "left off" to build this city, or 
went off to the left, went off at a tangent, thereby producing 
the letter V, the two tangent lines which form the letter, as 
we shall see, of the animal organ of generation, called the 
"bull phallus," thus entirely passing over the curved letter 
U, in this "plain" of Dedication, or Presentation; which 
metaphorical story at once, as we shall see in a few lines, 
brings us to the time of the Operatives in Rome, where the 
letter "V" achieved both alphabetically, and nationally, 
such prominence to the total exclusion of the letter "U." 

Therefore is the name of 

it called Babel [Babble, or Babul]; because the 

Lord did there confound the 

language of all the earth: and 

from thence did the Lord scatter 

them abroad upon the face of all 

the earth. 

Genesis 11:9 [Evolution — Issuance] 

By process of armed conquest Rome, a polyglot assemblage 
of Latins, Trojans, Carthaginians, Greeks, and lesser tongues 
in its inception, became gradually mistress of the then earth 
with a distinct language and alphabet of her own. This alpha- 
bet she acquired by a series of military colonizations, extend- 
ing herself as an operative chiefly along the line of road 
building, — which was perfectly logical, for she was again 
building up the "way" of the oneness of language and speech. 
It is for this reason that we speak of Latin, — which really is 
Roman, — as the foundation of our modern English, whereas, 
in reality, Rome was but gathering in the symbols of that 
alphabet which originally were scattered abroad from their 
wholeness by the Lord. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 67 

But, although Rome finally assembled practically the al- 
phabet as we use such today, she found in this assemblage 
that she had left out of her calculations the letter "U," 
whereby she was exactly in the position as told of the families 
of the sons of God who strove to make their "U" by two 
straight, inelastic lines drawn at a tangent, and thereby pro- 
duced the symbol of Violation, only. Now observe the result 
of Roman failure to comprehend this "U" alphabetically. 

The "U" is the symbol of the cradle, — Presence, which is 
holiness, purity. The cradle became ignored in Rome. Roman 
jurisprudence allowed to the father plenary powers of life and 
death over his own progeny. In Roman society the character- 
istics of the letter "U," — holiness, dedication, chastity, 
gentleness, innocence, — were most conspicuous by their op- 
posites; and the symbol of violation, the male organ of gener- 
ation, became the public badge of indiscriminate worship. In 
carven symbol this insignia of the violation of virginity, and 
lust, was carried openly by Emperor and Statesman, maid 
and matron, alike. It swung from the head of the chariot of 
the General and Senator, the Poet and Philosopher; it was 
worn outwardly as a charm by the mother of the family, the 
wife, the young girl. Until finally conjugal fidelity, even the 
sacredness of virginity, came to have a purely legendary 
value in Rome; the cradle of the human race (worn by the 
female only) came to be but the common lupanar of momen- 
tary and indiscriminate lust; and Rome fell, shrieking to the 
old animal-headed gods of pantheologic Egypt to save her, 
fell never to arise from the utter abominations of her harlotry, 
her lack of the letter "U" alphabetically, — and lo! in the 
little country where went Caesar conquesting to fill out the 
Roman language into the alphabet of old Egypt, of Bible and 
Pyramid, the "one speech and one language" commenced to 
reassemble itself again, for in Britain was there found the 
sound of the little letter "U." 



68 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

So Caesar and his legionaries left in Britain the Roman al- 
phabet, to which in course of time the Britain added the 
missing "U." Then, gradually, by conquest and the absorp- 
tion of other nations into herself, Britain accumulated the 
language of " the whole earth" when it was "of one language 
and of one speech," until, her own speech perfected, she be- 
gan to send her language forth colonialwise; among other 
new countries to that called now the United States of 
America. 

Into England the letter "U" brought its tale of Presence, 
for with the establishment of the English language English 
jurisprudence established also the sacredness of the sex rela- 
tions, and an abhorrence of violation and violence, — the latter 
so much, that Lord Napier, when writing of the English 
peoples, referred to them as the most warlike when necessary, 
and the most unmilitary. Gentle and modulate in speech, re- 
fined in manner and expression as he is, yet the Englishman 
preserves the unjust law of primogeniture in his jurispru- 
dence, and the law of the curse of bastardy which no subse- 
quent conformation to the Common Law on the part of the 
erring parents can undo; and the Englishman makes open 
scoff of the United States calling itself in speech Am-ur-ica, 
wherein is no Law of bastardy upon the occupant of the 
cradle past the power of the parents to undo, no Law of pri- 
mogeniture, but whose foundational document of existence, 
— The Declaration of Independence of the 13 Original States, 
1776, — stamped with the seal of the Great Pyramid and All- 
Seeing Eye, the scrolls of Egyptian Papyri ready for the 
unrolling and reading, was born declaring: 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all 
men are created equal, that they are endowed by 
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that 
among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of 
Happiness. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 69 

The signatories of this document were men whose founda- 
tional creed of Life was culled wholly from their knowledge of 
the meaning of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, — for they were 
of those operatives, now calling themselves Free-Masons. 

\ / — the symbol of the "bull phallus," signifying 
animal generative processes. And as these pro- 
cesses are violent in nature, logically the sym- 
bol of the violence of Rome. The spade, the 
wedge, the bullet-nose, the sword point, the 
head of the rattlesnake, the prow of the battle- 
ship, — all objects testifying to violent entrance, 
or violation. This "V" the German, who so 
ruthlessly violated a peaceful country to attain 
toward his violent objective, and subsequently 
violated every known law of common decency 
in his violent processes, uses in his speech to 
the exclusion of the letter " W." 

Let us observe the letter "W," rejected from his speech by 

the German. A , , rT7 , • , , • , 

And she [iivej again bare his bro- 
ther Abel. And Abel was a 
keeper of sheep, but Cain was 
a tiller of the ground. 

Not "A-bull," but "A-bell" (Able). 

\J^/ — the double U, the double cradle, the symbol of 
the second birth; the last which should become 
first, even as the first was to become last; whom 
his brother, Gain, slew, because he was Able. 
This alphabetic symbol, which fulfills promise 
of the second coming wherein in Christ should 
all be made alive, symbolizes the Man whom 
the children of the world slew because His creed 
interfered with their profits (prophets): Voli- 
tion. 



yo THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

And that whereon they slew Him was, 

\/ — the Cross; the crossed integers; the sign of 
^ struggle and of death; the sign of multiplica- 
tion, whereby the sorrow of woman was to be so 
greatly increased. On such symbol was expia- 
tion symbolically made for the Lusts of the 
World, — but the Cross changes, when over- 
come, swiftly into the Crown, the Scourge into 
the Laurel, the symbol of Agony into the sym- 
bol of multiplication and plenty; and lo! the 
two diagonals of the Great Pyramid, in whose 
unit measure is told the cycle of equinoxial 
precession, the course of the seasons of strife 
and darkness, unite to form the foundations 
and crux of the wonderful Flower of Egypt, the 
Pyramid. 

Says Julia Ward Howe in "The Battle Hymn of the Re- 
public," 

In the beauty of the lilies 

Christ was borne across the sea, .... 

X — Struggle, Concentration. 

W — Why. The symbol of Tri-unity, the family tree 
with son and daughter on the parent trunk. In- 
verted, this letter becomes the Great Pyramid, 
in symbol, with the Sphinx in place atop ol it. 
Recognition. 

This symbolic complete Great Pyramid tells of the home of 
the Children of Eyes-Real, whose God, as proven by Mary 
Baker Eddy, is not a national God, but a Universal Father. 
When the capstone was rejected from the place where it be- 
longed, the circumcision of the Children of Eyes-Real oc- 
curred, — that is, the cutting off of the eye, 7, or Light; and in 
commemoration thereof, the Beacon Star of the North, 



CHILDREN OF WORD 71 

o Draconis, was removed from its place in the heavens, and 
the body of Operatives now calling themselves Free-Masons 
darkened the northern transepts of their temples. Yet, true 
in symbol to the partial removal of the Light only, the Free- 
Masons darken only their northern transepts, and we still 
place the light over our symbol of sight when we dot the 
letter "i." 

1 t> — two heraldic figures, uniting themselves in pro- 
cess of procreation, could only be expressed by 
the letter "Z," which is the "H" inverted in 
position of such act. This "Z" is the angular- 
ized "S," or the subtil Serpent known of the 
woman, what time she and her companion 
strove to locate the Lord God (Word-Appar- 
ent) in the flesh parts of Egypt. It signifies not 
joy, as in the Song of the Morning Stars and the 
Sons of God (Word), whenat the Building was 
complete, but the sorrow of the hour of Eve, 
the hour of darkness, when the Eye was down- 
cast, and the reward of the momentary seeming 
pleasure was Agony and Toil, and the Death on 
the Cross. And in true symbolization of this 
curse which its knowledge invoked upon man, 
note its insistence in the sound of the word 
"business," and how theBee,whose only knowl- 
edge of life is work- work-work till it dies, uses it 
as his sole sound contribution to the Song of the 
Hive, — "iz-iz-iz," continuously. 

Referring again to the 1st [Life] chapter of the Book of Gene- 
sis, verses 26 [Attraction] and 27 [Transition], God [Word] is 
accredited with saying that He created man in His own image 
and likeness, which was, and is, male and female. This state- 
ment of creation is reiterated in the 5th [Comprehension] 



72 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

chapter of the Book of Genesis, verses I [Life] and i [Rela- 
tion], wherein we read: 

.... In the 

day that God created man, in 

the likeness of God made he 

him: 

Male and female created 
he them; and blessed them, 
and called their name Adam, 
in the day when they were cre- 
ated. 

As, therefore, God (Word) speaks of Himself so emphatically 
as male and female, or plural, and so often refers to Him- 
self as "us," and "our," it is logical that we should find in- 
tegers to our alphabet which will carry out this idea of, 
not Sexuality , as of the Word-Apparent, which denotes sex- 
separation, but Hermaphroditism, which is sex unition, or full- 
sex, expressing Word. And it is here to be noted that not sex- 
unition, but only sex-separation is to be acquired by mortal 
processes. 

Unition speaks of Balance, Equality, Equalness. The 
W-o-r-d is, must be, a balanced product. Wholly, or herma- 
phroditically, it is composed of sight and sound; that is by 
In-to-licht (light), Intellect, whereby we procure a written 
statement of sound values, and Consciousness (conjures-in- 
S), that is works in wisdom, which is in silence, unitively. 
This unition, then, of sight and sound would give us a visible 
and audible alphabet which are the integers of Word. 

Now, although we have just procured a visible alphabet, 
brought about by the attempted anthropomorphization of 
God (Word), whereby we converted the Spiritual symbols of 
Word into fleshly symbols, yet that is not to say that a whole 
alphabet does not exist pristine still in purity and beauty; and 
indeed how other could God, W-o-r-d as his Inspired Scrip- 



CHILDREN OF WORD 73 

ture states, exist as All-Father without what we call an Al- 
phabet by which to express His Fatherhood ? 

Thine eyes did see my sub- 
stance, yet being unperfect; 
and in thy book all my mem- 
bers were written, which in 
continuance were fashioned, 
when as yet there was none of 
them. 

Psalms 139:16. 

Thus, to attain a full alphabet, and so to express ourselves as 
the integers, — or sons and daughters, — of God (Word), it is 
necessary to write our alphabet audibly as well as visually ', 
whereby we have, first, four distinct values to the letter "A," 
thus: 

A — as in the words male, hail, hale, aid, suggestive 
of Attraction. 

A — as in the words half, ran, mad, bad, cant, sugges- 
tive of Reaction. 

A — as in the words father, Ark, large, hard, sugges- 
tive of Expansion. 

A — as in the words awe, raw, war, door, suggestive 
of Contraction. 

These "word suggestions" will be found to apply analyti- 
cally to all words, and serve in such analysis to clear up the 
meaning of many words often obscurely explained by dic- 
tionaries. That is to say, they analyze the processes by which 
words are formed, thus giving the value to such, and also cor- 
relate the language. Further, given the correct, or local, pro- 
nunciation of words of any language, the meaning of such 
word may be ascertained by this analysis of its integral 
values. 

Thus the letter "A," visually and audibly announces itself 
as Action, or Attraction, Reaction, Expansion, and Con- 



74 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

traction. These "motions" are the sequential movements of 
the organic muscles when producing foetal birth, or when 
producing sound. And as, in the aggregation of this alphabet 
we have turned from the false conception, Word Apparent, 
whereby mortal life received expression, to the intelligently 
unitive Life wherein only is Word to be known, we name 
these first four audible and visual alphabetic integers An- 
nunciation, Articulation. 

So we have, then, 



A — Attraction 
A — Reaction 
A — Expansion 
A — Contraction 



Articulation 



B — as distinguished in the words, bull, bunt, buy, 
bullet, bang, suggestive of Propulsion, Projec- 
tion; as in bend, bond, bye, broad, brand, suggestive 
of Expression, or Propulsion Expressed. 

C — as in the words ice, nice, price, suggestive of 
Contemplation, Investigation. (Note the lat- 
ter suggestion carried out in the word mice.) 

This sound of " C " is very closely related to that of " S," and 
in our alphabetic story was directly the outcome of the ex- 
pression (misconceived) of the latter. The sound of "C," 
however, is produced by placing the tip of the tongue against 
the roof of the mouth. Do we not, when investigating a pro- 
posal, or contemplating the same, place the tip of the tongue 
against the roof of the mouth ? The letter " S " is contrariwise 
produced by placing the tip of the tongue against the teeth, 
and in-spiring the breath, or (when desiring to be louder, or 
more angry, venomous, snakelike) expiring the same. 

C — having the sound of "Ch," as in teacher, church, 
child, suggestive of Consideration. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 7 $ 

We do not make two separate sounds of this "C," that is 
sound the "C" and "H" separately, as, for instance, 
C-h-urch, teac-h-er, but combine the two sounds into one, 
giving thereby that sound of sympathetic consideration, or 
assurance, which the mother sometimes makes to the dis- 
quieted infant. That suggestion of Consideration, is also 
prominent in such words as chaste, chin, chain. And observe 
how involuntarily, — sub-consciously, as it is called, — we 
symbolize such integers of word as apply to our momentary 
mental condition. The very outward action we so invariably 
manifest when Considering is to rest the chin in the 
palm of the hand, or stroke the beard if wearing such. 

D — as heard in the words do, dont, dare, death, sug- 
gestive of Warning, Guidance, Admonition. 

E — as in seed, deed, Eve, read, lead, suggestive of Is- 
suance, Evolution. 

E — as in letter, dead, better, suggestive of Attempt, 
Tribulation, Attenuation. 

In the Hebrew so-called alphabet the symbol of the letter 
having the sound of "e" as in letter is ° . This sign, or 
symbol, the Jew has adopted from time immemorial as a 
sign of office where the loaning of money upon pledged 
articles is conducted. As the inception of such a place of ex- 
change is from the very causes of Struggle, Effort, Attempt, 
Tribulation, Attenuation, the reason of such letter in such 
symbol in the Hebrew alphabet is at once apparent. Also, it 
disposes at once and effectually of the already beginning-to- 
be generally doubted argument, that Hebrew is the language 
in which the Old Testament of the Holy Bible was originally 
written. 

In this connection, it is to be noted that when one is in a 
state of mental uncertainty, or forgetfulness, the effort to 



76 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

consecutively connect words is signalized by this sound of 
"e" as in letter. " I saw Mr. — er — Brown today; and he said to 
me — er ." 

F — as in the words fall, fluffy, flurry, fury, flimsy, 
fright, deaf, fear, all suggestive of Impotence, 
Retirement, Submission. 

It was Caiaph(f) as, who when he could not force Jesus to speak 
as he wished, tore his clothes in impotent fury. When desiring 
to show the capital criminal his inability to defy the Law, 
such hangs him on a gallows whose original form was thus: 

Pand is as now built but two Fs joined. And by this sym- 
bol on which the criminal is passed from this life, he 
is silently told of the impotence of his views against 
established society, and hanged on the symbol of the Eye 
downcast. 

But again the downcast Eye may be not the sign of im- 
potence, but of quiet possession. I submit, or "Suffer it to be 
so now," St. Matt. 3:15, as Jesus said, does not necessarily 
imply inability, but rather discretion. Before Pilate Jesus 
submitted in silence, which silence was mastery. And so this 
letter "F" may also take its place in the whole alphabet thus: 

F — Discretion; and as discretion is said to be the 
better part of valor, the symbol of fear becomes 
also the foreword (forward) of the true soldier. 

G — as in the words, God, good, great, glorious, grand, 
giver, Gezeh, gone, gaze, gale, suggestive of Re- 
leasment, Sending Forth, Fruition. 

H — not as aitch, but as in the words hurry, haste, 
hope, home, suggestive of Synthesis, Convention. 

I — as a pronoun this is a word in itself, even as is the 
i( A" a word in itself, and as such it immediately 
suggests itself as Individuality, Assertion, Ego. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 77 

Crime tells of an assertion of individuality too ruthless and 
positive to be tolerated by constituted society. 

I — as in the words Zip, pyramid, suggestive of Clari- 
fication, Confirmation. 

J — as in the words Jehova, Jesus, just, join, sugges- 
tive of Direction. 

Euclid states that a straight line is the shortest distance be- 
tween two points. This proposition is practically the founda- 
tion of mortal geometry, and as a proposition is all right, 
excepting for the fact that man has never yet been able to 
express a straight line or express himself by one. The bullet 
from the gun, the ray from the sun, the hand-guided pen 
from the draftsman, one and all persist in describing an arc, 
and because they describe invariably this Ark must be tri- 
angulated to carry on as intended to the given objective. 
Much learned disquisition has this inability of man to make a 
straight line called forth, and every possible reason from 
gravity to dynamics has it brought out explanatorily: yet the 
fact remains that man himself invariably travels in a circle, 
the sole reason for which is the mental attraction of like to 
like, which is Love. 

The Hawk, from which the Egyptian esoteric took his 
symbol of Wisdom, placing its head symbolically as the head 
of the Head of his masonry, — Ra (Ray, the Light, and his 
son, Osiris) — preserves a spiraling, graceful, easy course up- 
ward, by virtue of which it is able to mount to incredible 
heights without the apparent motion of wing. 

The Eagle is the symbol of unhallowed Rome and of ruth- 
less Germany, whose Emperor and Guard wore the carven 
eagle crest on helm, and the broidered Eagle banner at regi- 
mental head. Wilhelm, who pronounces his name with the 
letter of violence, "V," superseding the letter of volition, 
" W," advanced his Eagle standard straight as crow flight on 



78 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

his objective, Paris, marching ruthlessly right through un- 
offending Belgium in violation of Germany's written and 
moral honor. He did not reach there. Instead, when within 17 
(Tuition) miles of Paris he was halted and turned back. Then 
for two years he beat his wings in swift, straight thrusts at 
the Allies; until they, worn out, called to the nation whose 
flight has always been Hawkwise for help. And that nation, in 
the year 19-17 (Volition-Tuition), entered the arena to teach 
the straight-line flighted Eagle, before a gasping world could 
realize, the lesson that Might is not Right. 

Hogarth, artist, when asked to describe the Line of greatest 
beauty, demonstrated it thus: ^ ^---+---^ ^^^1 m This line 
is The Line of Beauty, and is mathematically demonstrated 
by pointing off three equal spaces and then drawing a line 
through such continuously, which line shall be as far below 
an imaginary horizontal drawn through such spaces as it is 
above such horizontal. 

In this manner are produced the lines of the Etruscan vase ? 
the female form, the outlines of the cloud, of the wave, of the 
human lips, of the nuptial flight of the Queen Bee, of the rose 
petal among other indications, and of the best musical and 
poetic composition, of the perfection of Biblical literary com- 
position, both in impact and in metre, and of the Great Pyra- 
mid. It is the line of the circle extended. 

In the 5th [Comprehension] chapter of the Gospel accord- 
ing to St. Matthew, verses 39 [Evolution], 40 [Conservation], 
and 41 [Life], this Line finds direct mathematical confirma- 
tion from the lips of Jesus of Nazareth, as the Line of Grace, 
Beauty, Strength, and Willingness, — the line of flight of the 
gentle man. 

Certainly, as witness the numerals of the descriptive 
verses, it was the direct Line of life-flight of the Nazarene, 
who thus in these verses expressed this Line: 



CHILDREN OF WORD 79 

St. Matthew, 5th Chapter: 

39: ... . but whoso- 
ever shall smite thee on thy 
right cheek, turn to him the 
other also. 

(All receptive, and consequently at once 
master of the situation.) 

40: And if any man will sue 

thee at the law, and take away 
thy coat, let him have thy cloke 
also. 

(Richer than the oppressor.) 

41 : And whosoever shall com- 
pel thee to go a mile, go with 
him twain. 

(Stronger than the straight line.) 

For, giving in two places, this Line automatically and mathe- 
matically but rises the twice higher. Logically it would initial 
the mortal name of Jesus. 

But also this letter initials the name Jehova, which is 
J-over of the Egyptian esoteric, and was expressed in his 
breathing system (J-over being the name of the sacred 
breathing) by just this line of intelligent motion. As the 
Healing Breath the Egyptian initiate called the knowledge of 
such to the part congested mentally, which part he acquired a 
diagnosis of by diagnosing the seeming physical ailment al- 
phabetically, and then translating the same into terms of In- 
telligence, or Spirit. 

After the lapse of the centuries, during which mortal man 
marched down the decline under the influence of the Dragon 
Star to the mouth of the Bottomless Pit, Mary Baker Eddy 
re-discovered this law of Spirit, or In-Spiritation, which is 
Inspiration, and named such the Science of Christ. And even 
as the Egyptian esoteric intelligently healed disease and 



So THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

raised the seemingly dead thereby, does the Christian Science 
practitioner today. 

This breathing, In-Spirit-ation, or Inspiration, is not ac- 
complished, it is needless to say, by drawing in a mouthful of 
air, holding the same until red in the face, and then blowing 
such out again. We live, move, breathe, and have our being 
only in Word, God, Spirit. So, to inspire and suspire Jehova 
(J-o-four), or J-carried to four places, — circularly, J-circled 
to four, we must intelligently express Life, or breathe, by 
Volition, Endurance, and Grace, which is merely another way 
of saying Faith, Hope, and Charity — but, said Jesus, the 
greatest of these is Charity. 

This Line of Beauty, then, is symbolized by the letter 

J = Direction. 

Strike the Line of Beauty where you will (on either cheek), 
and you but strengthen it, for mathematically it is always 
re-creative in rhythm. 

Seldom found in our (English) speech is that little sound 
"Zh" which, again, the mother uses to lull or incline the 
child to sleep. Common to the French tongue, we find it in 
what we call English only in such words as treasure, seizure, 
azure, measure, pleasure. It is the second symbol of the letter 
"J," the audible symbol, and consequently is written 

J (Zh) = Inclination. 

K — the meeting of the irresistible force and im- 
movable body; as in the words can, cant, cake, 
creator, craft, luck, — suggestive of Hesitation, 
Suspension, Balance, and finally Attention. 

It should be noted here that while certain picked "sug- 
gestive words" are placed in capitalization against each 
alphabetic symbol, such are only intended as a basic word 
to represent that expressed by such symbol, the use ol any 



CHILDREN OF WORD 81 

correlated word in such instance being perfectly permissible. 
For purposes of demonstration, without the confusion at- 
tendant upon the inter-exchange of many words to convey 
the same thing, and not to establish a rule of necessary 
rigidity, the author makes a standard of only such basic 
words as fit all cases, leaving to the reader to observe what 
choice he is pleased of correlated "word suggestions." 

L — as in all, love, letter, total, suggestive of Acqui- 
sition. 

M — as in may, more, marriage, mate, suggestive of 
Reception, Acceptation. 

Accepting an idea, or proposal, do we not often thus, 
" Mm-yes-hm-hm" ? 

N — as in knot, naught or no (cypher), nay, kneel, 
near, suggestive of Adaptation, which is Adepta- 
tion, Adeptness, Mastery. 

Alexander, wearied of life through the stagnation of con- 
quest that proved no conquest; Cortes, dying in virtually the 
extreme of neglect and failure after seemingly victorious con- 
quest; Napoleon, gazing across the dreary, leaden encom- 
passing sea from St. Helena to where was France and the 
World he conquested; Wilhelm II, wandering a broken man 
about the grounds of his Dutch refuge after failure in con- 
quest — all could tell of the futility of belief that Might is 
Right. 'Tis a hard lesson to learn, yet the first toward the 
Universal Brotherhood of man, and toward his sonship to 
God (Word). For mastery lies not in dominance, but in sub- 
mission. He who can not submit himself, can not hope to 
dominate that self. The strongest man is the man who can 
serve best; the richest, who can give the most; the wisest, 
who can love others better than himself. This is real prayer 
and worship. It is Truth demonstrated. 



82 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Word serves the Universe daily, hourly, every second, and 
every fractional part of every second, unfailingly, and with- 
out ostentation. Remove Word from the Universe, and where 
would be the Universe? Can all the King's horses and all the 
King's men overcome Word? So the strength of Word lies in 
adaptation, and not in rigidity or resistance, which is only the 
straight line and must infallibly come to an end. The circle 
serves always, and but grows the stronger for such service. 

O — as in go, sow, sew, show, Ob yes! — suggestive of 
Inclusion, Conception, Comprehension. 

O — as in rude, shoot, boot, loot, ruin, suggestive of 
Destruction. 

Although neither fire nor water will induce the little field- 
mouse to leave his hole in the ground, the owl, desirous of 
paying court to his lady with a choice tid-bit, has but to say 
"hoo-hoo," and the little field-mouse comes running forth to 
his destruction. This noise, too, makes the lone wind travers- 
ing the prairie, or when searching among the eaves of a house 
for loosened boards or cornices to tear down. It is the noise of 
the moaning gale running through the masts and spars of the 
ship it seeks to destroy. Before the typhoon, comes the long 
drawn "oo-oo-oo-" in the silence of the heavy calm. 

But it has, too, another suggestion for us; and as with the 
casting off of our symbolism of lust we have cast off the sug- 
gestions of destruction, darkness, and death, let us rather 
look for it in such words as lute, flute, Luke, new, you; and 
automatically that which was Destruction becomes now 

O — Repletion. 

P — as in price, pull, plenty, praise, prepare, sugges- 
tive of Expectation, Provision. 

Q — as in the words quiet, queer, quest, quit, sugges- 
tive of Obscuration, Mystification. 



CHILDREN OF WORD 83 

R — as in the words race, rear, rare, right, wrong, 
suggestive of the act of Excision, Preparation. 

S — as in speak, spiral, spell, gospel, hiss, suggestive 
of Expiration, and Inspiration. 

Again, as in the case of the letter "C" do we have a sound 
seeming at first glance to be formed by the combination of 
"H" with "S" as "Sh," but which in reality is but a one 
sound of "S," and found in such words as conscious, insure. 
And so we write this letter 

S(Sh) — as in the words, conscious, show, insure, 
shrive, shrine, shed, as suggestive of where Inspir- 
ation takes place, and consequently Spirituali- 
zation. 

Possibly the only one of the above cited "word suggestions" 
not at first apparent will be the use of the word shed in this 
connection. Yet the Spirit sheds its light; in the shed was the 
Christ child born. In the shade, or protection shed by the 
Great Pyramid, did the Child find refuge from the soldiery of 
Herod. This "Sh" sound is patently referred to in this con- 
nection by the Psalmist in, "The Lord is in His Holy Temple, 
let all the earth keep silence before Him." 

T — as in the words stay, street, tie, limit, stet (proof- 
reader's abbreviation for let stand), suggestive of 
the words Completion, Limitation, Finality. 

U — as in the words look, book, Jesus, pure, pyr(u)~ 
amid (peer-amid), suggestive of Presence, Pres- 
entation, Dedication. 

Orienting the Great Pyramid on a Draconis dedicated it to 
the exposition of the history of man as told in the alphabet; 
orienting it on the Sun, and on Alcyone, dedicated it to Intel- 
ligence, and to an exposition of the Laws of Life. We dedicate 



84 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

books. Jesus was dedicated tothe carrying out of His Father's 
Will on earth. Hence, as in all dedication we acknowledge 
Presence, dedication is really the "naming," and occurs logi- 
cally immediately on the completion of birth. Thus the 
church custom of the "naming" of the born child just so soon 
as advisedly the mother and child can be brought before the 
priest or clergyman. 

But this actual naming at birth (humanly speaking) has 
already been mentally or consciously accomplished by the 
parent, or parents, before the actuality (as we consider such) 
of such dedication occurs, — has, in fact, been in-spirited by 
the mother when carrying the coming life under the protec- 
tion of her heart, even as the Child was secured beneath the 
shelter of the Heart of Egypt, from where (as in Revelation) 
He was called forth. And so this "naming" of the child-to-be 
is in-spirited, and an analysis of the names of ourselves, or of 
people known to us, will tell of the very purports of such in 
this University of earth, even as we in-spirit every word 
spoken and written whereby we live, move, breathe, and have 
our being. For is not Word always with us, and could we exist 
for one moment were It removed from our midst? 

This name that we are here called by is our mortal Cross, 
formed by the crossing of the integers into a whole, herma- 
phroditically, which to follow to mastery we must accept. 
Finally, when as told in Revelation we assume the real name 
written in our foreheads (not our mortal skulls), we change 
the Cross into a Crown, and take up our inheritance when the 
whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 

A second sound of the letter "U" appears, as used by us in 
the words rut, gut, but, butt, grunt, all suggestive of Ignor- 
ance. The first of these suggestive words is that used to de- 
scribe the act of savage and animal coition; or that fallow in 
which, having fallen, we must use such prodigious energy and 
volition to come forth from. But, implying doubt, suggests 



CHILDREN OF WORD 85 

anything but clarity and intelligence; butt most certainly 
describes the most ignorant way of removing an obstacle 
from the path, and is generally indulged in by the goat, rhi- 
noceros, and bull, than which three more stupid animals 
probably do not exist. 

Yet do we find the Indian of North America habitually 
using this "u" in his speech, and especially in the council 
where, if anywhere, might wisdom be looked for. Nor is the 
North American Indian one to whom either the words "ignor- 
ant" or "stupid" could with any show of justice be applied. 
His very mode of life and knowledge of woodcraft cry out 
against such term, his worship of a Great Spirit proclaims him 
anything but uninformed. Moreover his crafts, his knowledge 
of natural history, the artistry of his habitations, do not in 
the least speak of unintelligence. 

But when we recall that the North American Indian is one 
who, nurtured on the vast prairies and deserts, lives so exclu- 
sively within himself that he vividly mirages hunting grounds, 
and sees the face of the Great Spirit in the beauty of nature, 
that he procures the notes of his music from the seven sounds 
of the wind over the prairie, and the river, and among the 
trees, that he instincts Presence of otherness as do the dumb 
animals, rather do we understand the use of this sound of the 
second symbol "u" by him to express his inferiority, and so we 
write this second cradle letter, 

U — Seclusion, Interiority. 

V — as in the words move, grave, violence, evade, Love, 
suggestive of Entrance. But Love, we know, 
will find a way, and so we write this letter best 

V — Incursion. 

W — as in the words will, won't, want, went, wend, 
way, suggesting Volition. 



^ Articulation 



86 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

X — as in the words axe, phalanx, oxen, crux, hoax, 
suggestive of Struggle, Friction, Concentration. 

Y — as in the words yea, yes, beyond, suggestive of 
Recognition. 

Z — as in the words business, Boaz, does, zeal, sugges- 
tive of Demand, Insistence, Continuation. 

Thus, gathering our alphabet tabularly, we have, 

A 

A 

A 

A 

B 

C 

C 

D 

E 

E 

F 

G 

H 

I 

I 

J 

J 

K 

L 

M 

N 

O 

O 

P 

Q 

R 



Attraction 
Reaction 
. Expansion 
Contraction 

Expression 

Contemplation, Investigation 

Consideration 

Admonition, Guidance 

Issuance, Evolution 

. Effort, Attenuation 

Submission, Discretion 

. Releasment, Fruition 

Synthesis, Convention 

Individuality, Ego, Assertion 

. Clarification, Confirmation 

Direction 

Inclination 

Hesitation, Suspension, Attention 

Acquisition 

Acceptation 

Adaptation, Adeptness 

. Comprehension, Inclusion 

Spoliation, Destruction, Repletion 

Expectation, Provision 

. Obscuration, Mystification 

Excision, Preparation 



CHILDREN OF WORD 



7 



S 

s 

T 
U 

u 

V 

w 

X 
Y 
Z 



. Expiration, Inspiration 

Spiritualization 

. Limitation, Completion, Finality 

. Presence, Presentation, Dedication 

. Ignorance, Interiority, Seclusion 

Entrance, Incursion 

Volition 

Effort, Friction, Concentration 

Recognition, Tri-Unity, Triangulation 

Demand, Insistence, Continuation 



Turning to the Great Pyramid for confirmation of this 
visual- audible alphabet, which we have acquired now di- 
rectly according to the Law of Word (God), we find first 
the Grand Gallery, that "way" uniting the King's and 
Queen's chambers (the I and O), and consequently the full 
measure of male and female, to be roofed over with just 
completely 36 stones, which are just the exact number of 
integers in our visual-audible alphabet. Then placing these 
36 symbols in numerical order we have: 

A— 1 
A— 2 

A- 3 

A- 4 

B-5 

C— 6 

C-7 
D— 8 
E-9 
E — 10 
F— 11 
G— 12 

H-13 
I-14 



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I-15 

J-16 

J-17 
K— 18 
L — 19 

M— 20 
N— 21 

0—22 
0-23 
P-24 

Q-25 

R— 26 

S-27 
S— 28 
T — 29 
U— 30 
U— 31 
V— 32 
W-33 
X-34 

Y-35 
Z-36 



Total 666 

This alphabet is confirmed in the Great Pyramid, which latter 
we completed geometrically by placing the figure of the 
Sphinx, on the capstone, atop thereof. The Sphinx, silent 
riddle of the ages, is the figure suggesting a male beast 
with the upper form of a woman. Placing such atop of the 
Great Pyramid, over the chambers of the King and Queen, 
which chambers are united by the Grand Gallery with its 
covering of 36 stones, symbolizes the unition of Male and 
Female, no longer as Be-st! (which was the curse laid on the 






CHILDREN OF WORD 89 

most subtil beast of the field), but as the Cry-st! the Saviour, 
which should unite all, the great One, and which in the uni- 
tion of the visual-audible alphabet (acquired by the methods 
of the Beast first, and then fulled and made pristine by the 
teachings of the Christ), totals the whole integers of Word 
(God) as 666. 

Turn to the 13th [Parturition-Birth] chapter of the Book of 
Revelation [Revealing] and the 18th [Co-ordination] verse 

therein: 

Here is wisdom. Let him 
that hath understanding count 
the number of the beast: for 
it is the number of a man; and 
his number is Six hundred 
threescore and six. 



THE GREAT ONE 



IV 

II Timothy, Chapter 2 (Relate) : 
15 (Locate-lodge) : Study to shew thyself ap- 
proved unto God, a workman 
that needeth not to be ashamed, 
rightly dividing the word of 
truth. 

THE Christ is the word of Truth, admittedly. In the 
thirteenth [Parturition] chapter of Revelation, John, 
the author, states that he stood on the sands of the 
shore and watched two beasts rise up out of the sea. The first 
beast received his power from the Dragon (a Draconis), and 
was fashioned as three wild beasts; the second beast that 
came up out of the sea was like a lamb, but he spake, also, as 
a dragon. The two beasts, as we have seen, represent the mor- 
tal and Immortal, the Son of man, and Son of God. The for- 
mer, the Be-st! when recognized as the word of Truth be- 
comes the Cry-st! It is this latter, whose numbers are those of 
the full alphabet, which in Timothy we are bidden to divide 
rightly, thus showing ourselves workmen who need not be 
ashamed, for we are approved unto God, or have proven our- 
selves to God. For this purpose is mortality made apparent, 
the Word made flesh. 

And this "rightly dividing" the Word of Truth, we are told, 
is dividing the great One, or Oneness. As it is at first difficult 
to perceive how dividing the whole can produce a oneness, it is 
necessary, as always, that we go to Holy Bible and Pyramid 
to learn. 

To refresh the memory of the reader, and obviate the 
necessity of referring to previous tables of Consciousness 
States and Alphabet, both are here repeated in the order 
given. 

Consciousness States: 

1 : Life, Being. 



94 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

2: Relation. 

3: Construction. 

4: Generation. 

5: Comprehension. 

6: Attraction. 

7: Mutation, Transition. 

8: Completion. 

9: Evolution. 
10: Conservation. 
11 : Re-volution. 
12: Involution. 
13: Parturition. 
14: Re-creation. 
15: Location. 
16: Function. 

17: Tuition, Intuition, Selection. 
18: Co-ordination, Co-operation. 



l 9 


: Volition. 




20 


: Realization. 


The Alphabet: 




1— A 


Attraction 




2 — a 
3— a 


Reaction 
Expansion 


A R T 1 C U 


4— a 


Contraction, 




5-B 


Expression. 


6— C 


Contemplation. 


7— c 


Consideration. 


8— D 


Admonition, Guidance. 


9-E 


Evolution, Issuance. 


10 — e 


Attenuation, Effort. 


11— F 


Submission, Discretion. 


12— G 


Releasment, Fruition. 


I3-H 


Synthesis, Convention. 


14-I 


Assertion, E 


l°- 



THE GREAT ONE 95 

15 — i Confirmation, Clarification. 

16 — J Direction. 

17 — j Inclination. 

18 — K Suspension, Attention. 

19 — L Acquisition. 

20 — M Acceptation. 

21 — N Adaptation, Adeptation. 

22 — O Inclusion, Comprehension. 

23 — o Destruction, Repletion. 

24 — P Provision, Expectation. 

25 — Q Obscuration, Mystification. 

26 — R Excision, Preparation. 

27 — S Expiration, Inspiration. 

28 — s Spiritualization. 

29 — T Limitation, Completion. 

30 — U Presence, Presentation, Dedication. 

31 — u Ignorance, Seclusion, Interiority. 

32 — V Entrance, Incursion. 

33 — W Volition. 

34 — X Struggle, Concentration. 

3$ — Y Recognition. 

36 — Z Insistence, Continuation. 

Total 666 
Plato says that God perpetually geometrizes. By the Great 
Pyramid God certainly asserts the triunity of His activities, 
and tri-unition of His purposes, and His own Trinity, — and 
these manifestations are, of course, the manifestation of Wis- 
dom, which is Mind. Thus, in symbol in the Great Pyramid, 
He establishes, and divides, the earth and the fullness thereof 
into its classified and numerized laws, by process of always 
tri-angulation, which really is the squaring of the circle, 
pi-'mg the same. Thus to divide the word of Truth, as told in 
the Great Pyramid and Holy Bible, must we apply the same 



96 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

process of triangulation in vogue in either, by which process 
each confirms the other. 

The total integers of the word of Truth result in the num- 
ber (666) of the Beast. In dividing the number of the Beast, 
which is Wisdom and the number of a man, the Great Pyra- 
mid regards the whole as a triangulation, or tri-unition of two 
equal numerals, the one which is alphabetically depicted as 
prostrate, the ^, and the other upright, |, horizontal and 
perpendicular; and even so, according to Genesis 1 126-27, and 
Genesis 5:1-2, does the Holy Bible. Remains then, obviously, 
but to apply the Pyramidal process by which such are ren- 
dered tri-unitive. 

Place aux dames. The female is manifestly the "in-volu- 
tioned" or "in-turned" expression. Her processes of mental 
activity are z'n-tuitive. Even as woman, herald of the Hour of 
Darkness, Eve, which is woman's brightest hour, she looks 
within; and the Light of Night, in honor of the hour of her 
reign, is referred to as "she." The Great Pyramid orients 
itself at midday on the male sun, but at midnight on the 
female star Alcyone, most beautiful of the Pleiades. So, se- 
quentially, to express in numerals the one of the zw-sight, the 
female, must we zVz-turn the numerals of the Word of which 
is She a part. This is the process of znvoluting. 

involution is circular in activity, and z';z-turning, or turn- 
ing in on one another, is drawing-together, or adding. So to 
get the iwvolutioned, or female, expression oi the numeral 
666, which is the number of a man, we z;zturn these figures, 
which is to consider them as six and six and six, or 18. 

In Consciousness, then, the number of the female is 18. 
The 1 8th Consciousness State is Co-ordination, which is the 
age of consent in the female, when, as in the 18 th letter of the 
alphabet, she appears able to care for herself. But this unit 
18 is in excess of the unit measure ot the horizontal course of 
masonry, wherefrom are our Consciousness States correlated 



THE GREAT ONE 97 

with Holy Bible. Obviously our circle, 1 8, is yet too large, and 
must be reduced to true geometric circumference to preserve 
its place in the spiral stairway of Consciousness, /^-turning 
this figure again results in / (one) and 8, which is 9. As this 
number is less than the standard 10 it is final as the measure 
of the female of the Word, and in Consciousness is called Evo- 
lution. The ninth letter of the alphabet, be it observed, is that 
letter (— , which the female added to the alphabet by dis- 
obedience, the Eye pierced with the shaft of light, whereby 
the Hour of Darkness fell upon the world. Evolution proceeds 
by spiral, Awards, as travels the screw. 

As is the female the intuitive one, so is the male the extui- 
tive, the apparent, the lord. The Great Pyramid orients at 
midday on the sun, and on the tail star of the Dragon, 
a Draconis, which is the symbol of the Bright and the Morning 
Star, of the Christ, the word of Truth. Thus to procure, as 
does the Great Pyramid, the expression of the male, we must 
write down that which is apparent, visual, over, remainder. 

The number 666 gives sixty-six courses of ten units each, 
with an over, apparency or remainder, of six. This is the 
simplest sort of mathematics, and not only foundational, but 
practically the whole of mathematics. In Consciousness, this 
remainder 6 is Attraction. Therefore the Consciousness of the 
Word is the tri-unition of Attraction and Evolution, 6 and 9. 

God (Word) in Genesis 1:26-7, and in Genesis 5:1-2, says 
that He repeated his own image and likeness as male and 
female, and called them man. Consequently the unition of 
male and female would give us the expression of Tri-unity 
which God (Word) called man. That is, numerically, 6 plus 9 
equals 15, and 15 is Location, Place, — the mount Zion of the 
old Psalmist, which is the Great Triangle, the Great Pyramid. 
Also man is one-five (15), which is the unit of measure of the 
Great Pyramid, — five sides, five corners, five-times-five 
courses upward to the Queen's chamber, which is composed 



98 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

of combinations of fives, and ten-times-five courses upward to 
the King's chamber, which is also composed of combinations 
of fives, — symbolizes the five earth senses, and the five- 
pointed Star, the twice five Commandments, and the emblem 
of the Christ, the Word of Truth. 

The Son, the male, sits on the Right Hand of God. This 
"rightly dividing" the word of Truth places the Son on the 
right hand, and the daughter, of course, on the left, and is 
Tetragraming. To Tetragram, then, the number 666, we ex- 
press it thus: sss 

6 + 9 
© 

Thus we have, by tri-uniting, or Tetragraming, the Word of 
Truth, when the latter becomes "rightly divided," man ex- 
pressed as Location, or Place, — the Place of which is the 
Word of Truth the chief corner stone, or Head. Alphabetically, 
the number 15 expresses the "I" (Confirmation), which we 
are taught to dot in eternal memory of the Light over the 
Pyramid, the All-seeing eye. 

No further corroboration of the Tetragram could reason- 
ably be required. Yet, lest any, sceptical, should talk of "co- 
incidences" and "chance," one more direct demonstration is 
vouchsafed us, based upon this very number of a man, and in 
the very Pyramidal courses from which is the Tetragram de- 
rived, — the pitch, or rhythm, of the Ark, wherefrom is the 
nineteen (and finally true, or twenty) Chromatic Scale. For 
the number 15, the Chromatic, or Consciousness, numeral 
of the Word (God), (when the Chromaticism is True, conse- 
quently the Word of Truth), is derived by the unition of the 
numerals 6 and 9, and our entire scale of musical notes, in 
whatever language of accepted musical composition, is com- 
posed of these unvarying note-figures, » and 1 , which are, 
as plainly as can be, the numerals of the Consciousness of 



THE GREAT ONE 99 

Attraction and Evolution, brought into ever-changing attrac- 
tion and evolution to evolve what we term music. 

And the whole earth was of 
one language, and of one 
speech. 

Man is a homogeneous word. Man is the servant of God 

(Word). Tetragramatically he is expressed: 

M — Acceptation 20 

a— Reaction 2 

n — Adaptation 21 

Total 43 

3+7 
© 

10, Consciously, is Con-servation, the Server. The numer- 
als 1 and o contain, or conserve, between them the entire 
known numerals. Again we have a generic expression in con- 
firmation of Genesis 1 126-27; Genesis 5:1-2; and Revelation 
13:18. 

The Son of man said, "I and my Father are one." St. John 
10:30. 

The words my Father are written, m-y F-a-t-h-e-r; pro- 
nounced, M-i F-a-t-h-u. Consequently, the visual-audible 
expression of my Father would be m-i-y F-a-t-h-e-u-r. 

M — Acceptation 20 

i — Ego-assertion 14 

y — Recognition 2S 

F — Submission, Discretion 1 1 

a — Expansion 3 

t — Limitation, Completion 29 

h — Synthesis, Convention 13 

e — Evolution 9 

u — Seclusion 31 



ioo THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

r — Preparation 26 

191 
1 + 2 

® Con- 
struction, the irreducible figure A, Trinity. 
There is only one Trinity, and that is God. 

The my Father referred to is, of course, God, only. The 
word "God" is written G-o-d; pronounced G-a-d. Its visual- 
audible expression is G-o-a-d. 

G — Fruition, Releasment 12 

O — Comprehension, Inclusion 22 

A — Expansion 3 

D — Guidance 8 

45 

© 
14, Consciousness of Re-creation, Ever Creator; the Line of 
Beauty in expression. 

Thus, the "I," which is the 14th symbol of the alphabet, 
and my Father (God, 14) are one. 

The Holy Bible says that God is the W-o-r-d. Word is 
written, w-o-r-d; pronounced, w-o-e-d; whole value visually- 
audibly, w-o-e-r-d. 

W — Volition, the double birth 33 

O — Comprehension, Inclusion 22 

E — Effort, Attenuation 10 

R — Preparation 26 

D — Guidance 8 



99 

9 + 9 

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THE GREAT ONE 101 

Word: Co-ordination, — that Wholeness, or Holiness, which 
is the difference between man and the beast of the field. 

These integers by which Word (God) is made manliest are 
male and female, both homogeneous words in themselves. 



M — Acceptation 


20 


a — Attraction 


1 


1 — Acquisition 


l 9 


e — Evolution 


9 




49 




9+4 




® 




Parturition 


The male of Word, then, is Parturitive, 


or Giving Forth, 


Creator. 




F — Submission, Discretion 


11 


e — Evolution 


9 


m — Acceptation 


20 


a — Attraction 


1 


1 — Acquisition 


J 9 


e — Evolution 


9 



69 

6+9 
© 

Location 
The female of Word is Locative, or stable. It was in a stable 
where the Christ was born. Neither female nor male should 
however be confused with "man" and "woman." The for- 
mer are the expressions of God, the latter the emanation of 
woman's false conception of God. Male and female are nu- 
merically 49 plus 69, or 118. tfetragramatically this 118 re- 
ceives expression, — 



io2 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

118 

8 + 10 



1 8, Co-ordination, Co-operation; the purposes for which 
Male and Female were created in equality. The co-ordination 
of these integerically gave us the number 666, which is Wis- 
dom, Mind, and the number of a man. See the Tetragram of 
"Word" whose integers man is. 

That which God created male and female in His image He 
named man. The number of the complete Pyramid, and al- 
phabet, He declared to be "W T isdom and the number of a 
man." In the Constructive (3rd) chapter of Exodus, the Re- 
creative (14th) verse, He gives Moses a definite name whereby 
is the latter to make Him known to the Children of Israel. 

And God said unto Moses, 
I am that I am: and he 
said, Thus shalt thou say unto 
the children of Israel, I am 
hath sent me unto you. 

I — Assertion, Ego 14 

a — Re-action 2 

m — Acceptation 20 



36 
6+9 

© 

15, The Place, "beautiful for situation," wherefrom come all 
the laws of the Universe. Also, exactly has this I am the male 
and female and total numerals of the number of a man (666). 
Therefore, the why that Jesus called Himself the Son of man. 

I — Assertion, Ego 14 

a — Re-action, Recreation 2 

m — Acceptation 20 





THE GREAT ONE 


T- 
H- 


-Completion, Finality 
-Synthesis, Convention 


09 
!3 


A- 


—Re-action 




2 


T- 
I- 


-Completion, Final 
—Assertion, Ego 


ity 


2Q 


A- 


—Re-action 




i 


M- 


-Acceptation 




20 

145 

5 + 10 

© 



103 



Thus, the Son of man and the Son of God one and the same. 

Certainly no more whole and eternal phrase than that 
name whereby was Moses to make known their God to the 
Children of Israel could be imagined. I am that I am is repre- 
sented by the figure 15. The Word (666) Tetragrams on the 
number 15. 

When the symbols of Word went forth from Babel as scat- 
tered tongues, not the slightest possibility of man's future 
was overlooked; nor was he to be permitted the knowledge 
of Wholeness that comes in revelation until such time when 
he should conditionally be ready for its unfoldment, until the 
Scripture was fulfilled, as says Holy Bible. Thus, as" we have 
seen, was entrusted to the keeping of the blue-painted, nose- 
ringed Britain the knowledge in use, — and not overly intelli- 
gent use, — of the sacred symbol of Presence, Presentation, 
Dedication, the letter "U." And now, finally, do we find the 
one Whole symbol, the combination of all symbols, figures, 
and laws, entrusted alone, and solely, to a race of humans 
from whom betrayal of its meaning was impossible; who, 
knowing nothing of the value of this imperishable heirloom, 
yet worshiped such as the symbol of the Great Spirit Him- 
self, and who are, or were, the original denizens of this 
country whose first written document frames the very essence 



io 4 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

of Pyramidal lore stamped with the chief symbols of the Pyra- 
mid, — the real American, the North American Indian. 

Zealously guarded by him, as a fetish of good luck, in coun- 
cil and kiva, this figure is formed by joining the male and fe- 
male figures of the alphabet in the form of a cross with added 
extended arms pointing ever westwards, from which is its 
name, Swastika, — S-was-tik-a> (i)S-west-take-U(ur), i. e. 
"west take" the sacred symbol found among the Picts of 
Britain. And westward it went, as far westward as geographi- 
cally possible, which automatically becomes eastward again, 
and westward the course of empire wended to recover its 
meaning of Presence, Dedication, dedicating the first docu- 
ment of the most westward country to the purports of the 
Great Pyramid, the Eternality of God and the Sonhood of 
man. For this figure of the Swastika is but the unfolding 
figure of the Great Pyramid, the Peer-amid, the cradle of 
Wisdom. 

Starting with the dot, at once the starting and stopping 
place, four straight lines are drawn therefrom to four equi- 
distant points, in symbol of the base lines of the square. At 
once the four As, Articulation, are apparent, the letters 
I, X, L (I excel), and the letters O, V, T (overt), also the 
figures i (one) and o: 



Placing the completing arms, pointing westward, on the 
figure, to complete the Swastika, the letters Z, H, and N be- 
come apparent, the figures 1 and 4, and having already ac- 
counted for the dot, the period, and the little circle, which are 
the starting point, we have revealed also in this second step of 
unfoldment, the triangle, square, the conventional four-leaf 



THE GREAT ONE 105 

clover, and the compass, also the combinations of the various 
letters to be arrived at by those already given. Here, then, 
are at once the fundamental laws of mathematics, arithmetic 
and geometry, of literature, and botany, of astrology: 



- 1 — 

/ 



For, overlaying the four original straight lines with the curved 
line of Truth, the Swastika again unfolds the petals of knowl- 
edge like a wondrous beauty flower, and there lie revealed to 
us in all the purity of Creation the U, the W, the S, the C, and 
the D, among others, the bladed screw of propulsion, the 
Egyptian lotus, which is the lily, the serpent, the female form, 
the human lips, the lines of the Etruscan vase, the nuptial 
flight of the Queen Bee, — and in short every law of the fine 
arts and the useful arts known to mankind. 




It is with regret this manuscript turns from a revelation so 
wonderful and beautiful, but space does not permit the 
further following of these revelations here, and the purport of 
this work is but to indicate the direction to be traversed, not 
to work out the whole and so deprive the reader of his part of 
collaboration therein. To those desiring to further observe the 
revealments of the Swastika, the following out of the figure 
along these lines will reveal all, for the process is merely logi- 
cal and sequential, the secret thereof the establishing of the 
dot, or placing the dot where it belongs over the "I," (in the 



106 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Swastika as the conjunctive point of the "I"s), thus lighting 
the Eye. And to light the Eye, is to acknowledge the Presence 
of the Light, — the All-Father, "The Father of lights, with 
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." 

This figure of the Swastika was the knowledge to be re- 
vealed to the children of Israel, the I am that I am, the 
symbolic expression of the Great Pyramid inspired by Wis- 
dom, which is God. What words other than I am that I 
am could describe such a symbol, and such a revealing? 

I am that I am, Consciousness of (15) Location. 

Events do not " happen." If one admits this, one must logi- 
cally carry such admission to its last analysis and admit that 
anything may "happen," which is to deny all laws of ethics, 
philosophy, mathematics, and the balance of averages. And as 
neither business nor the laws of ordinary life are conducted 
on such haphazard philosophy, it is but just to assume that 
neither are the affairs of the Universe. Consequently, it fol- 
lows that if the Swastika was entrusted to the most westerly of 
all peoples, itself a symbol with arms pointing ever westward, 
and with the very name of west in its makeup, such must have 
been for some definite purpose. On unfoldment, this purpose 
is easily manifest. 

And what of the fact that this symbol, itself taken from the 
Great Pyramidal system, foreran the inception of a newest 
country reviving in its first document, in its appointed lead- 
ers, and in its coinage, the very symbols of, and only of, the 
Great Pyramid, Masonry, as well as of the purports of that 
Structure and of the Holy Bible? In order to avoid suspicion 
of design, it becomes here necessary that the author admit he 
is not, has never been, nor contemplates application to be- 
come, one of that truly magnificent body of world's citizens 
styling themselves Free-Masons. This explanation is ren- 
dered solely lest it be assumed that he holds a brief in these 
frequent references to Masonry. 



THE GREAT ONE 107 

The word Swastika is written (visually), S-w-a-s-t-i-k-a; pro- 
nounced (audibly), S-w-a-s-t-i-k-u : full value, S-w-a-s-t-i- 
k-u-a; composition of 9 (Evolution) integers. 

S — Inspiration, and Expiration 27 

w — Volition 33 

a — Expansion 3 

s — Expiration, Inspiration 27 

t — Completion 29 

i — Confirmation 15 

k — Balance, Attention 18 
u — Ig-norance, Seclusion, Interiority 31 

a — Attraction i 

Total 184 

4+4 

® 

Completion 

The Swastika when truly drawn presents the two figures 8, 
QslO With its two arms only, j | 
C^ it is the two figures 4. I L— 
The two figures are the male and female expression (see Tet- 
ragram) of the whole number of "Swastika," which whole 
number is one-eight-four. It may also be read (i8)-K (4) A, 
and as such is that expression used in the Egyptian Book of 
the Dead relative to the breathing-o^/, and in, the ^cpiration 
and Aspiration, of Soul, Ka, and the double Ka. 

Prior to the time that modern Science took a hand in recog- 
nizing the Great Pyramid as a monument of oriented Lore, it 
was the fashion among certain so-called scientists to refer to 
the Great Pyramid as either a tomb, or a jail, — that is, a 
place intended for the incarceration of offenders, a sort of 
ancient Bastile. The absurdity of either of these claims has 
become, through the efforts of modern science, too manifest 
to require further comment, nevertheless the claim that the 



108 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Great Pyramid may have once been a sort of glorified jail af- 
fords here opportunity to test such word with the c Tetragram, 
more especially as the two great nations of English-speaking 
peoples pronounce this word similarly, although writing it 
quite differently. For while the American calls this place a 
"jail," the Englishman with equal persistence insists that it 
is a "gaol." Let us see how either regards the purports of such 
place. 

J — Direction 16 

a — Attraction i 

i — Assertion 14 

It is Assertion Attracted in the wrong Direction that 
gets the offender against society into jail. 

1 — Acquisition 19 

And this Assertion is the desire for Acquisition by (19) 
Violence, which by such is miscalled Volition. 

Total 50 
10 + 5 
© 
J-a-i-1, 15, Location. An utter description of it, and of its 
purport; also possibly the psychological reason why the 
quasi-scientist rushed into the conclusion that the Great 
Pyramid must have been intended as a place of incarceration. 
However, to the Englishman, this place is a 

J — Direction 16 

g — Releasment (the tearful eye) 12 

a — Attraction i 

o — Comprehension, Inclusion (walled in) 22 
1 — Acquisition 19 

70 

10 + 7 

© 



THE GREAT ONE 109 

Thus, to the American a jail is a place of location for the 
unfortunate, or a place where he may recover his balance, his 
poise, his one-tiveness, while to the Englishman such is a 
place of tuition to the offender, where he becomes one-seven, 
or changed. Alphabetically, to the American jail is a place of 
(I) enlightenment; to the Englishman, (J) a place of in- 
clining the wayward. And the difference is to be regarded in 
the integers expressing sorrow (12) and inclusion, or en- 
compass (22), wherewith the Englishman makes manifest 
his idea of the intent of such place. 

To anyone familiar with the conduct of English prison life 
and American prison life, this word analysis and Tetragraming 
of these two words will be sufficient; and for those not so in- 
formed, the author takes the liberty of suggesting an inspec- 
tion of the nearest place of incarceration, or a few short hours 
of reading in any public library among any number of works 
dealing with this subject in all countries. Perhaps, for the 
American, Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, or 'The Ballad of Read- 
ing Gaol, will be found as instructive as any works in the 
matter of illustrating the differences between the English and 
American prison systems. 

To the charge that the Great Pyramid is a tomb, the Tetra- 
gram answers: 

T — Limitation, Completion, Finality 29 

o — Destruction, Repletion 23 

m — Acceptation 20 

b — Expression, Propulsion 5 

77 

7 + 5 
© 
/^-Volution 
To-M, whereby was produced Death, the wages of Sin. 
Hardly a description, however, of the Great Pyramid. 



no THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

S — Inspiration, Expiration 27 

i — Confirmation (con-formation) 15 

n — Dependence (in this case) 21 



63 

3 + 6 
(12) 



i>Z-VOLUTION 

In-voWed in both Sin and Tomb. S-m, or inner darkness. 

D — Closed Eye, Warning 8 

a — Expansion 3 

r — Excision, Preparation 26 

(The darkest hour of Night is that which prepares for the 
Dawn. Before the hour of evolution, on the Cross, darkness 
was over the whole land.) 

k — Suspension, Attention 18 

n — Dependence 21 

u — Presence 30 

(".... If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." 
Psalm 139:8.) 

e — Evolution 9 

(That letter made alphabetic by the Hour of Darkness, 

Eve.) 

s — Inspiration, Expiration 27 

s — Inspiration, Expiration 27 



169 

9 + 7 



Observe the Male and Female Consciousness States as de- 
scriptive of the Crucifixion. It was about the seventh hour, — 



THE GREAT ONE in 

preceding the hour of evolution (9), — that darkness was over 
the whole land, and Jesus cried with a loud voice for 

L — Acquisition (overcoming) 19 

i — Ego, Individuality 14 

g — Releasment, Fruition 12 

h — Synthesis, Convention 13 

t — Cessation, Completion 29 



87 

7 + 6 

© 

Parturition, 
Releasment, Opening 

We call Darkness Death, and Light Life. 

D — Closed Eye, Guidance 8 

e — Attenuation, Effort, Struggle 10 

a — Attraction (to otherness) 1 

t — Limitation, Finality, Completion 29 

h — Synthesis, Convention 13 



61 

i+7 



Completion, 
Ending 

Actually, ending is but beginning. Even in this mortal life, 
the completion of a thing is but the beginning of something 
other, for Evolution must evolute. Where, then, is thy sting, 
O Death? Where, Grave, thy victory? The processes of Death 
are but those of sleep, wherein we dream anew to other efforts. 

S — Inspiration, Expiration 27 

1 — Acquisition, Overcome 19 



■■■■■1 



1 1 2 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

e — Evolution 9 

e — Evolution (Issuance) 9 

p — Expectation, Provision 24 
(Called a wise and kind provision of Nature.) 



8+7 

(15) 



Re-located: alphabetically, ("I"), con-formed, — made anew, 
refreshed. All of which are but the processes of the simulation 
of Death, Sleep. 
In sleep we 

D — Closed Eye 8 

r — Excision, Preparation 26 

(The symbol of the female breast discharging its milky com- 
plement. Observe how generally the "dreamer" drools , that 
is, waters at the mouth after the fashion of one, helpless, 
feeding.) 

e — Issuance, Evolution 9 

a — Attraction i 

m — Receptivity 20 



64 

4+10 

© 

^-creation; r^-imagery; remembering; recollecting. 
Not in opposition to these, but utterly apart from such 

L — Acquisition, Overcoming 19 

i — Ego, Individuality 14 

f — Submission, Discretion ii 



THE GREAT ONE 113 

e — Evolution 9 

53 

3 X S 

© 

^-VOLUTION 

Re- volution is the eternal circle, which is Mind. Its integers 
are those two alphabetic expressions which stand for Male 
and Female, which united as man, are the image and likeness 
of God. These two figures (11) are equally proportioned, 
without the necessity of the symbol of lust connecting. 

For the symbol of lust, even when performing the act of 
connection, yet stands as a bar of separation. The knowledge 
of the existence of such serves as a constant barrier between 
male and female, whereby, although created equally in the 
image and likeness of God, can neither mingle with the other 
in utter freedom, seldom without desire or fear. And slavery, 
desire, and fear are but the attributes of lust. Not by Lust, 
but by Love, is the Brotherhood of man accomplished. 

Just as the author of this offering holds no brief for Free- 
Masonry, neither for Christian Science, nor for Romanism, 
Anglicanism, Protestantism, nor any sect or creed, so, too 
does he hold no brief for Equal Suffrage as a political move- 
ment. Nevertheless, he feels bounden to point out that no 
geometrization can ever be perfect that does not account 
equally for the female, for geometrization in its first and last 
analysis is tri-angulation, tri-unition, tri-unity, Trinity; and 
Trinity is the Whole expression of God (Word). Further, 
without this expression of male and female, "rightly divided" 
we have no word of Truth, no Christ, no All-Father, who 
states plainly in Genesis 1 -.26-27, "in our image, after our like- 
ness," creating them, "in his own image [and likeness], in the 
image of God created he him; male and female created he 
them." 



1 14 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Equality is balance. The opposite of balance is insanity. 
On the balance of a business house rests its success; its un- 
balance preludes but swift disaster. Though man is the ser- 
vant of God, no man was created the servant of another, and 
man is male and female. 

But be not ye called Rabbi: 
for one is your Master, even 
Christ; and all ye are brethren. 

St. Matthew 23 [Repletion]: 8 [Completion] 

or Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master , even Christ; 
and all ye are brethren. 

The Christ is the Word of Truth, admittedly. To "rightly 
divide" the Word of Truth male and female must receive 
utter equality. For the demonstration of this was the Tetra- 
gram devised. 

The two opposing elements are the so-called power of Lust, 
and the power of Love. The former makes for inequality, the 
latter produces perfect equality. In the verse above quoted, 
we are informed that "even Christ" is our Master, not odd 
Christ. 

L — Acquisition 19 

u — Ignorance, Seclusion 31 

s — Expiration 27 

t — Limitation, Finish 29 





106 




6+7 
@ 




Separation 




and foetal birth 


L — Acquisition 


r 9 


u — Ignorance, Seclusion 


3 1 


— Comprehension, Inclusion 


2 2 



THE GREAT ONE 115 

v — Incursion 32 

e — Evolution 9 

113 

® 
Completion 
Fruition, Wholly, Holy (Immortality) 

13 is the alphabetic sign of the tearful Eye; 8 of the closed 
eye, the "blindness," and kindness, of Love. Also the G is the 
broken circle, and the 8 is the combination of two circles. 
Their added together whole expression, T'etragramed, results 
in the numerical 13, Parturition. For, says the Poet-Astrol- 
oger of Naishapur, "'tis but a hair divides the false and 
True," — but, oh, what an across! 

It is in the 13th chapter of the Book of Revelation wherein 
its author informs us of the acme of wisdom, which is the 
numbering of the Beast (666), that we learn also of a second 
Beast. Receiving its power apparently from the same source 
as the first Beast, — for it spake after its sign, or constellation, 
"as a dragon," — this second beast is described as being "like 
a lamb" (Rev. 13:11). Elsewhere throughout this Book of 
Revelation, time after time, the Lamb is identified with the 
Christ, the expression of God (Word). Obviously, then, these 
two beasts identify themselves with the Word made flesh and 
with the Word of Truth. The Word made Flesh was Jesus, 
mortal; the Word of Truth, the Christ which Jesus, mortal, 
by process of crucifixion overcame to immortality. In best 
phraseology, therefore, the two beasts receive expression, 
when the second is lifted from mortality by the -f- cross, as 
Jesus the Christ in entirety. O 

J — Direction 16 

e — Evolution, Issuance 9 



1 1 6 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

z — Insistence, Demand, Continuity 
s — Inspiration, Expiration 
u — Presence, Dedication 
s — Expiration, Inspiration 



36 

27 

30 

27 



13 

26 

27 



145 

5 + 10 

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Location 

1 5 is the Tetragramed number of I am. 

K — Balance, Attention 18 

c — Contemplation 6 

h — Convention 
r — Preparation, Excision 
i — Assertion, Ego 
s — Expiration, Inspiration 
t — Finality, Conclusion, Completion 29 

3+7 
© 

Conservation 
Jesus-Christ, — 145 -{-133=27 8 
8 + 8 
© Function (One-sex 16). 

This, the completion of the Pyramid by added capstone ex- 
presses. 

t — Completion 29 

h — Convention, Synthesis 13 

e — Evolution 9 

u — Ig-norance, Interiority, Seclusion 31 



82 



THE GREAT ONE 117 

Jesus-the-Christ, — 145 + 824-133=360 

10+9 
© Volition 

19, Volition, — the Line of Beauty which is the Way, which 
in the New Testament J esus the Christ called Himself. The al- 
phabetic 19th symbol is the letter "|^." 

The Beast raised to the 19th power (of courses) becomes 
automatically the twentieth power, Realization. Jesus the 
Christ, then, typifies the first beast, which, raised to its place, 
is the first and second beast. This second beast must there- 
fore receive expression in Tetragramatic processes whereby 
we "rightly divide" the word of Truth. 

As the Lamb, represented by the second beast, is obviously 
the "gentle," or /^turned, one, mathematical expression of 
this entity is obtainable by /^turning or turning in, the 
figures female-/y. And again Holy Bible and Great Pyramid 
absolutely confirm each other. 



The Alphabet 


A 1 


(In 


-voluted) 
I 


a 2 







a 3 




3 


a 4 
B 5 
C 6 




4 

5 
6 


c 7 
D 8 




7 
8 


E 9 




9 


e 10 




10 


F 11 




2 


G 12 
H 13 




3 
4 


I 14 




5 



1 1 8 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 



i 15 




6 


J 16 




7 


J 17 




8 


K 18 




9 


L 19 




10 


M 20 




2 


N 21 




3 


22 




4 


23 




5 


P 24 




6 


Q 25 




7 


R 26 




8 


S 27 




9 


s 28 




10 


T 29 




2 


U 30 




3 


u 31 




4 


V 32 




5 


W 33 




6 


X 34 




7 


Y 35 




8 


Z 36 




9 


666 




207 


6+9 




7+9 


© 




® 


1 


5 + 


16 




® 


Life, Being, Tri-unity, 
Light. 



Also the figure " 1 " (one) is the letter "I" (eye). The letter 
"I" denotes Light, Sight. In the Sin of the Ages it received 
attempted anthropomorphic expression as the phallic symbol, 
being regarded as the creative organ by ?nan y whereby they be- 



THE GREAT ONE 119 

came man and woman. God (Word) is the "I," or Eye, the 
Light; in Egyptian masonry, Ra(y). 

Said the Son of Ra(y), Osiris, who in the Holy Bible is 
called Jesus the Christ: 

"And I [Eye], if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all 
men unto me," St. John 12:32, and, "I and my Father are 
one. ["I"]." 

For " I," and " 1 " (one), are purely unitive in processes and 
expression, and when lifted atop the Great Pyramid draw all 
men unto, and into, one ("I"). 

Egyptian Masonry is the process whereby the Great Pyra- 
mid, with All-Seeing Eye, was constructed. This Masonry had 
its own particular symbolic expression, even as has all subse- 
quent mental, religious movement, from Confucianism to 
Christian Science. The Egyptian Mason recognized a Trinity, 
and a Trinity only. He represented this Trinity by three Ex- 
pressions of the All-Father, Ra (Ray), the Light. These 
expressions were, Osiris, the Son; Isis, the daughter; and Nep- 
thys, the sister of Isis. Osiris represented the male of the 
Word; Isis, the female of the Word; and Nepthys, the con- 
firmation, or con-formation, of the two. Hence, Osiris was, as 
his name indicates, the Son of Light, or Sight projected; Isis, 
insight; and Nepthys, the Veiled Sight. This composition 
completed the Triune expression of Ra, or Light, the All- 
Seeing Eye, as the Word of Truth. 

In conformity with this triune Expression of Word, it is 
necessary then to account for Nepthys, the Veiled expression 
of Word, and as the veiling is the darkening, or z'wturning of 
sight, obviously to procure a numerical expression of such we 
must resort again to the mathematicism of involuted figures. 

Visual expression, W-o-r-d; audible expression, W-o-e-d; 
triune expression, W-o-e-r-d. 

W — Volition 23 

o — Comprehension 22 



i2o THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

e — Attenuation io 

r — Preparation 26 

d — Guidance 8 



99 
9 + 9 



18, — Consciousness of Co-ordination, integerically divided 
into a male and female expression of Evolution. This, then, 
procures us an expression of the composition of the Word as 
Father. To obtain the Motherhood of God (Word) it is neces- 
sary to find an expression for Nepthys, thus: 

Evolutional expression Involutional expres- 
in combined male and sion of these corn- 
female integers. bined integers. 



4 

10 



That is, by again /^turning or adding these combined integers 
of the alphabet, even as we zVzturn the Whole expression of a 
word Tetragramatically to obtain a Consciousness Expression 
of the same, and not allowing the integer so inturned to ob- 
tain above the number ten (10), we procure numerically an 
expression of the "Veiled Sight," which is, of course, the 
Hearing, or Sound. Thus in our full Tetragram we have the 
added together alphabet which gives us that combined ex- 
pression of Word which is Biblically called man, and which is 
Sight, and the Consciousness expression of man, which is 
Sound. Completing the expression of the word, — 



iV 


33 





11 


e 


10 


r 


26 


d 


8 



THE GREAT ONE 121 

Sight Sound 

Total 99 36 

9+9 6 +9 

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Word, thus, gives a grand total of 33, or of 18 + 15. This 33 
represents the courses necessary to the final degree of Free- 
Masonry, the lifetime of Jesus the Christ, and the unit dis- 
tance between the King's and Queen's Chambers in the Great 
Pyramid. 33 consciously reduces itself to 3, A, as repre- 
sentative of W-o-r-d. 

Even as with every other of the Laws of the Universe are 
the processes whereby we become named. In the Bible it is to 
be noted very careful attention has been paid to the naming 
of the various people appointed to carry out certain projects, 
and definite reasons for the giving of such certain names are 
quite emphatically told. In the case of Jesus, it may be re- 
called, His birth was foretold under the name Emanuel 
(E-man-u-well), but upon the assumption of the role of the 
Christ by Him His name became Jesus (J-z'j-S, the Way). 
Saul, so soon as a definite constructive purpose was manifest 
to him, superseding the destructive one of his election, became 
automatically Paul, and constant changes of this sort are too 
familiar to be in need of repetition here. Even the very names 
of the Almighty undergo as many as five distinct changes 
in Genesis alone, all under the personal supervision of God 
Himself. When we apparently create, that is, repeat, an 
object, or a purpose, we name such, even as when we write 
a book. Man as an integer of Word would logically have a 
name, — as many names as purposes to be fulfilled. 

There exists obvious reason why we may shorten Thomas 
to 'Tom, but none why we should call Richard Dick, William 
Bill. And although Elizabeth abbreviated to Lizzy is partly 
sequential, Peggy for Margaret is as inexplainable as Ted for 
Theodore or Ned for Edward. Then there are the various nick- 



122 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

names we have fastened upon us from time to time, account- 
able for only as the appearance of ourselves to those inflicting 
such names upon us. For while one boy may, for instance, 
impress a schoolfellow as sufficiently like a "tadpole" to earn 
from the mouth of such schoolfellow this nickname, it is not 
probable that this appellation would appeal to its unfortunate 
wearer as at all true to himself. And in accepting, and answer- 
ing to, such name, he more than likely but yields to force 
majeure. 

Why, for example, should Richard be called Dick? 



R- 


-Excision, Preparation 


26 


8 


i- 


-Confirmation 


15 


6 


c- 


-Consideration 


7 


7 


h- 


-Convention, Synthesis 


!3 


4 


u- 


-Presence, Dedication 


30 


3 


a- 


-Attraction 


1 


1 


r- 


-Excision, Preparation 


26 


8 


d- 


-Guidance, Warning, Admo- 






nition 


8 


8 






126 


45 






6+9 
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5 + 9 
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15 + 


H 



Evolution, Issuance 

To anyone familiar with the literature of a century or so 
ago, it will be at once apparent, both from the two ultimates 
(15 and 14), and from the Grand Ultimate (9), why Ben- 
jamin Franklin selected the name of Richard for the hero of 
his Almanack. 

D — Guidance, Warning, Admonition 8 8 

i — Confirmation, Conformation 15 6 



THE GREAT ONE 123 

c — Contemplation 6 6 

k — Hesitation, Attention i 8 9 

47 29 

7 + 2 9 + 2 

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9 + 11 

@ 
This Grand Ultimate (9) in Richard's name may serve to 
explain why Richard Coeur de Lion chose to become crusa- 
der, even at the risk of his crown. 

Richard makes a good soldier, sailor, or adventurer, because 
he has strongly implanted in him the purport of issuance. 
This latter should be evolutional, for that is Richard's cross in 
life, the processes of which are integerically given in his name. 
Dick is inclined to be passionate and changeable in the ex- 
treme. He acts on impulse, and is easily led. His lovable quali- 
ties are always apparent, yet he is wayward. In the Grand 
Ultimate of Dick's name (20) is the crux, for he may elect to 
make this Reality either Spiritual or Material, Love or Lust. 
W — Volition 
i — Confirmation, Clarification 15 
1 — Acquisition, Conquest 
1 — Acquisition, Conquest 
i — Assertion 
a — Attraction 
y — Recognition 
u — Presence, Dedication 
m — Acceptation 



33 


6 


N 15 


6 


19 


10 


19 


10 


H 


5 


1 


1 


35 


8 


30 


3 


10 


1 


186 


5i 


6+6 

© 


1+6 

© 


12 


+7 

® Volition. 



i2 4 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

William crossed (7) the seas to the conquest (19) of England, 
— that is, to graft the Norman tongue on the Saxon of the 
Angle; and with the battle of Hastings the Saxon passed (7), 
and the present sturdy race of Englishmen was born. 

B — Expression, Propulsion 5 5 

i — Confirmation, Conformation 15 6 

1 — Acquisition 19 10 

1 — Acquisition 19 10 



58 3i 

8+4 1+4 

@ ® 

12 + 5 

© 

A bill is an accounting of credit primarily, intended to inform 
us of our indebtedness. It is also clearly a teaching in the 
matter of expenditure, of balance, and of prudence, as is its 
dollar namesake. When applied to man it suggests strength of 
purpose and determination, even domination, — all of which 
are hallmarks of what we think the teacher. 

The Great Teacher does not force His presence or doctrine 
upon us. He presents such to our consideration, then leaves us 
absolutely free choice. If we decline, He does not call us fools. 
He calls us always and ever His children, and says that as 
such, whatever we may conceive individually of our impor- 
tance and mentalities, we are all equally His children, male 
and female, and that our name is man. It is indeed a hard, 
hard lesson to learn. 

These examples, as indeed all others in this offering, have 
been picked without purpose aforethought by the author, 
other than as led by the text of this matter. Their adapta- 
bility to the illustration in hand is in the province of the great 
One for revealment. 



THE GREAT ONE 125 

It should be here noted, — and has not been remarked on 
before, of purpose, — that the female figures of both the Sound 
and Sight Tetragrams are always the same numerically, hence 
Consciously. As a mathematical phenomenon explanation of 
this is only to be found in the realm of the Spiritual, and 
thither the individual user of the 'Tetragram is directed by 
this work. This sameness of the Female figures in both 'Tetra- 
grams of any one word, however, is the reason for the sym- 
bolic mythology of Egyptian Masonry. In 'Tetragraming it is 
an absolute check upon the trueness of the integerical ulti- 
mates. 

Neither the purpose of this offering, nor the Line of Beauty, 
which is the sole way to mastery, permit that we pass from 
this Part without a 'Tetragramatic expression of woman. 

M — Ace e ptati o N 
a — Attraction 
e — Effort, Attenuation 
r — Preparation 
i — Clarification, Confirmation, 

Conformation 
y — Recognition 



20 


2 


I 


1 


10 


10 


26 


8 


15 


6 


35 


8 


107 


35 


7 + 8 
© 


@ 


15 + 


l 3 



Mary was the mother of Jesus, Biblically. If the reader will 
turn to the story of the Annunciation of the coming birth of 
Jesus, to Mary, the-mother-to-be, as told in the Gospel ac- 
cording to St. Luke, beginning with the song of Mary 
(chapter 1 : verse 46) : 

46: My soul 

doth magnify the Lord, 



126 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

47: And my spirit hath re- 
joiced in God my Saviour 



he, or she, will need no further explanation as to why the 
mother of Jesus of Nazareth, the Man who was to evolute the 
World, should be called "Mary." For the very first two sym- 
bols themselves, "M" Acceptation (verse 46), and "A" At- 
traction^ Rejoicings tell the story in the beginning, as do the 
following integers sequentially. 

The purport of the symbolism of Egyptian Masonry be- 
came wholly lost what time the Star of Light was removed 
from its polarity, and the Northern Transept of the World 
went dark. A pantheism of animal-headed gods sprang up to 
replace it, and the same condition of affairs arose as would 
manifest itself should we suddenly take to worshiping the 
symbols of the Alphabet rather than the Word (God) which 
they but express in divers expressions to us. This attempted 
anthropomorphization of Word, hitherto consummated in 
darkness, is the Sin of the Ages, and has resulted in the wages 
of sin for all of us, Death. Ra, the All-Father, and Osiris, his 
generic son, wore symbolically the heads of Hawks in token of 
the masterful flight of this bird, of gentleness, and of the Line 
of Beauty. Not until after the pantheology of Ra, Osiris, and 
Isis, did Isis assume the Crescent Moon of Evening, announ- 
cing that she was Eve, the Hour of Darkness, as testified by 
the ornament on her forehead. 

But the Book of the Dead represents these children of God, 
too, as in human guise. Ra (Ray) is the name of Light, the 
All-Seeing Eye. His Son is O's-Eye-O'er-S, the Serpent sym- 
bol, and Osiris wore the Serpent about his forehead in token 
of his intellectual mastery over the serpent. Eye's-S (Isis), 
Sight's Line of Grace, bore the Flower of Egypt, theLotus,in 
her hand. In-F-Thee-S, — the Veiled Lady Nepthys, — is only 
shown on the left hand of Isis, her sister. Really, it is beauti- 
ful. O's (Mind's) Eye-O'er-S— Mind's Eye (Sight) over- 



THE GREAT ONE 127 

breathes, or breathes outwardly; Eye's S, — Eyes In-turned, 
or inspired Sight, which is Insight; and In-F-Thee-S, in- Word, 
or inward, Thou breathest, Nepthys, . . . the three breaths 
of the Great Serpent, the Great One. 

In the hand of Osiris is always the figure of the Tetragram, 

+ 

o 

the Square and the Compass, the Cross and the Crown. 

Thus, in recognition of his mission, holds Osiris, the son of 
Light, the measure of Heaven and Earth in his hand, — the 
Tetragram, or Key. 

What is the mission of Osiris? 

O — Comprehension, Inclusion 22 4 

s — Inspirit-ation 27 9 

i — Ego, Individuality 14 5 
r — Preparation, Excision (the 

surgeon) 26 8 

u — Presence, Dedication 30 3 

i — Individuality (Eye) 14 5 

s — Inspirit-ation 27 9 

160 43 

10+7 3 + 7 

Tuition @ @ Service 

17+10 

© 
Transition 

Osiris, by virtue of the Tetragram figure in his hand, an- 
nounces himself as master of the Transit. In his name there 
are 7 integers, and the female of both Tetragramatic expres- 
sions of him are 7. The Grand Ultimate of his name is also 7. 
In the Holy Bible the son of Word is known as the son of a 
carpenter. A carpenter works with a T-square and Compass. 



128 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Revelation, nth Chapter: 

I : And there was given me a 
reed like unto a rod: and 
the angel stood, saying, Rise, 
and measure the temple of God, 
and the altar, and them that 
worship therein. 

It is said that Truth is stranger than fiction. As a matter of 
fact who is to say which is Truth, and which is fiction, as we 
conceive such? For what we call Truth is established and per- 
ceptible fact only, whereas fiction is the fact of Consciousness, 
and Consciousness is the awaredness of Truth. The presump- 
tion that what is written of a material world must be real, 
just as what is written of an immaterial world must be un- 
real, is purely the reversal of fact by the presumption of the 
mortal. As a matter of fact, all the so-called Truths of the 
material world prove in the last analysis to be but inverted, 
or imaged, imaginings of the /^-material world, and the 
things that we can taste, touch, feel, smell, and with the 
mortal eye perceive, but mutative forms without substance. 

The predecessor of the moving picture was a little booklet 
containing a number of poses of pugilists, dancers, or actors, 
which when turned swiftly leaf by leaf through the fingers of 
the hand produced the effect of a continuous moving-picture. 
As a matter of fact, exactly that process is what is accom- 
plished by the physical eye, whereby are constructed the 
myriad forms of what we call sight. These/or/^ become held 
in a state of tension, even as the picture is held on the screen 
of the "movies," until such assuming apparent substance seem 
to us real. 

When Bunyan wrote the Pilgrim's Progress, he chose 
the language of Fiction in its most obvious sense, — Allegory, 
— wherewith to present his subject. Both before and after 
Bunyan, even to this very day, that method of presentation 



THE GREAT ONE 129 

of Truth is observed. It has many advantages over the cold, 
straight method of direct presentation, as it both affords 
scope for rhythm of expression, and by its very allegoric 
phraseology serves to impress its facts deeper on the memory 
of listener or reader. Do the daily happenings about the 
household, or fairy stories, most impress the child? And, in 
later years, which does the matured mind retain? A good 
story is always a good story, but to become an impressive 
story it must be clothed in appealing language. 

In that Book called the Holy Bible we become at once 
aware of the use of language such as we can not in speech 
equal. To the scholar and classicist, be he in agreement with 
the contents of Holy Bible, or not, it affords the pleasure in 
words that a rare gem does to the connoisseur of such. It has 
inspired more happiness, strife, perplexity, agnosticism, 
despair, and martyrdom, than all the books of all the world 
combined. Its sale ever steadily increases. Simply as a book 
of a collection of stories, it is the father of all known literature 
ancient, mediaeval, and modern. Write as you will, however 
originally, and only the fact that there is no copyright on the 
Bible, that it is of "no private interpretation," saves you 
from the embarrassment of the commission of plagiarism. 

Charles W. Eliot, sometime President of Harvard Univer- 
sity, once quietly observed that it was time we got away 
from the tyranny of the Bible. The first five books of this 
Book of books, we are led to suppose, or have led ourselves 
to suppose, were written by a mortal called Moses. In in- 
fancy, we are apparently instructed, Moses, who was a 
Hebrew, was recovered from waifdom or possible death 
from among the ^//rushes of a stream by a daughter of the 
then reigning King of Egypt. This august lady, so Scripture 
informs us, had her protege brought up as a Prince of the 
Royal House of Egypt. It is to be remembered that the Royal 
House of Egypt was most distinctly royal in its every aspect, 



130 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

preserving a blood-hereditary dynasty that has defied repe- 
tition; for brother and sister united in wedlock to conserve 
the royalty of such intact. The first inconsistency of this 
story, concerning the introduction of Moses into membership 
in such family, as a purely material fact becomes at once an 
obstacle to credulity. 

Secondly, these Hebrews, or Israelites, of whom was Moses 
a child by birth, had been held in captivity for some little 
time; and as the policy of Egypt appeared to be an utter 
national disintegration of the Hebrews, it is only logical to 
assume that they proceeded to carry out such disintegration 
by the only means known to nations to accomplish such, by 
a disintegration and paralyzation of the mother tongue. 

In any case, it seems Moses was brought up from earliest 
infancy far from the people of his speech, as a Prince of the 
then Reigning House of Egypt, and as such, of course, was 
versed in what of the Great Pyramidal lore was part of the 
necessary up-bringing of every Egyptian Royalty. So that, up 
to the age of forty years, his mother tongue must have been 
purely hearsay to Prince Moses: 

At this age Moses, it appears, had the misfortune to slay an 
Egyptian, practically in self-defense, and certainly in defense 
of another. The commission of manslaughter in self-defense, 
or to save life, is recognized as justifiable even at this day in all 
civilized and uncivilized nations. In Egypt it is a moot ques- 
tion whether slaughter, by a Royalty, would be considered 
an offense. Yet Moses, a Prince of the Reigning House, and 
therefore exempt from the common law, by the accidental 
killing of a man virtually in self-defense, is forced to flee for 
his life like a common felon. Yet apparently was his act of so 
little judicial moment, that at no great time thereafter he 
could walk boldly and unmolested into the very presence of 
the Pharaoh himself, and that without any further reference 
to the causes of his so abruptly leaving the shelter of his 



THE GREAT ONE 131 

adopted father, the King of Egypt. Oddly, too, when Moses 
presents himself at this court where for forty years of his life 
he must have been a personage of very great distinction, it is 
as an utter stranger without credentials. 

But, putting aside these manifest material inconsistencies, 
— or inconsistencies of material facts, — it is palpably obvious 
that if we are to read the story of Moses, even as the story of 
Samson, of Job, of Solomon, of Jesus of Nazareth, of Saul, 
and the weird imagery of Isaiah, and the hauntingly beauti- 
ful descriptions of John in Revelation, we must read such as 
they were written, as scripture, in the Spirit, as psychologic 
accounts of psychologic happenings, and not as the stories of 
material flesh and blood men. John says he wrote Revelation 
in the Spirit. This is not to say that these men had no earthly 
conceptions, no material presentations; but that the Biblical 
accounts of the happenings, whereof they were historical part, 
are psychological, or Spiritual, and that with such solely is 
Scripture concerned. 

This writing is concerned solely with the realm of Word, 
which is the realm of the real, or Spiritual. As such it knows 
all men to be the Sons of God, even as all women are the 
Daughters of God, both in utter equality. No other interpre- 
tation will satisfy either this offering or Scripture. Those 
things that are of the earth are Caesar's; the things of God 
(Word) are all that are accounted herein. Hence the material 
presentations of Word, — can there be said to be such, — of the 
mortal Moses, Solomon, Jesus, — were there such, — are not 
included in this offering. 

Moses, then, we are informed, — to continue his story, — 
was removed from the environs and tongue of his birth until 
approaching what we term early middle life; yet despite this 
handicap, he was able, it appears, with perfect facility and 
mastery to begin, almost immediately, and to complete, in 
the Hebrew tongue, about as large and copious a magnum opus 



1 32 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

as was ever contemplated by man, — and on such a subject! 

In the preface to what we term the standard, or Prince 
James, edition of the Holy Bible, we are informed on its title 
page that it is translated out of the original tongues, and in its 
preface a dedication is made by these "translators" to the 
reigning monarch who we believe ordered such translation. 
This monarch is addressed as "the Most High and Mighty 
Prince James [no comma after James, so that we gather he 
was not "the most high and mighty Prince, James," but 
" Prince James"], by the Grace of God, King of Great 
Britain, France, and Ireland." 

It is a pity that the numeral of this James' Kingship was 
omitted, but even with such omission it is at once obvious 
that no Prince James, or King James, was monarch of Great 
Britain, nor Prince of the same, for the very patent reason 
that the Kingdom of Great Britain was not declared, ratified, 
or formed by the four lesser Kingdoms until (circa 1707) 
after the last of the Scotch and English Kings, and Princes, 
James were laid to rest. 

This King, or Prince, James was also, we are informed, 
King of France. Here history is challenged. If any Prince 
James, or King James, of England was also a King of France, 
— and he must have been a Prince James, or King James of 
France, or else held the French throne under an alias, — 
neither the Patents Royal of England nor France, to say 
nothing of the histories of either country, record such fact. 

Thirdly, if Prince James, to give him his Biblical title, es- 
tablished a sovereignty over Ireland at this date, neither 
English nor Irish will admit such; unless possibly he was one 
of the James succeeding Oliver Cromwell, and even then his 
Irish sovereignty is not historically established. So we must 
assume this dedication to Prince James, — for they do not 
address him as King, — of these various countries, to have 
been an invention of the "translators," for certainly it is not 



THE GREAT ONE 133 

supposable that men of such erudition could be so histori- 
cally inaccurate about the reigning King of their own day and 
country. 

Moreover, it seems odd that no slightest account of the 
personalities of these same "translators" is preserved to us. 
A work of this description is a weighty matter. It is easy to 
find the names of the authors of the various articles in the 
Encyclopaedia Britannica of any date, for instance; and al- 
though occasional articles, stories, or poems, may be anony- 
mous, or attributed, here and there in literature, there is not 
the record of any work of importance remaining unknown 
either as to its authorship, or to its translations, if such occur. 
If the scholars, — and they must have been very learned, pro- 
found, and famous ones, — who "translated" the Bible out of 
the original tongues, chose to remain utterly unknown, there 
is certainly nothing in their translations to show why such 
modesty should have become necessary, for language, spelling, 
and style of diction are such as were not in vogue during the 
reign of any James known to history, nor in fact in vogue 
during the times of any other known monarch. 

Further, why in this Preface do all of the words that could 
serve to localize it occur always, and only, in italics? That 
has never been the custom in any document written in any 
language and in any time. England, English tongue, Occident, 
etc., all occur in this guise. Can it be that the same method of 
"rejection" as that giving us the number of the Beast, is 
again applied to tell us what is really so obvious ? 

Hebrew is not, and never has been, a universal language. 
As a matter of fact, it has never been as universally popular 
as is present-day Chinese, for instance; so why the God of all 
mankind, who established Himself as Word, should pick out 
a formless, strictly local, unalphabetic tongue to express 
Himself in, is utterly un-obvious. And how He could express 
creation in that tongue is as impalpable as how, in such case, 



i 3 4 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

we obtained the letters of our alphabet. If you admit that 
this language we, calling ourselves English-speaking, com- 
municate in is the Original Tongue, when all the earth was of 
one language and of one speech, then you have a definite and 
logical reason for the offshoot alphabets of Hebrew, Greek, 
Persian, Chinese, and all other attempts to express man sym- 
bolically. But if you maintain that Hebrew was the original 
tongue of the Word, the one language and one speech of the 
whole earth, then you have to alter history and account for 
the English alphabet and the English language. And, since 
the War of Words, just completed, wherein the true alphabet 
nations were opposed to the unalphabetic nations, this tongue 
and language are becoming Universal with increasing ra- 
pidity. 

"Come, let us reason together." In what language, other 
than English (as we call it), is to be found the word Bible? 
The names Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy? Num- 
bers, of course, might be a translation of the equivalent 
Hebrew word for such; but no language in the world will dis- 
close the other quoted four names, saving that of the Book. 
whose lesser books they title. The word Pyramid? Tetragra?n? 
In the New Testament, we read of Stephen, Philip, John, 
James, and Peter, as followers of Jesus. Since when were such 
names applied to Jews? Yet these men were all Jews, we are 
told, — Jews of Jews, born, circumcised, reared, and taught, 
in strictest accordance with rigorous rabbinical law. Also, if 
any Jew before or after the Nazarene bore the name of Jesus, 
both religious and secular scripture have failed to reveal such. 
Instead, the name seems to have since deteriorated mostly as 
the given name of Spanish muleteers and Mexican peons 
solely. But, finally, if you stop to consider, of what Hebraic, 
or other language, name is God a translation ? For it cer- 
tainly can not be claimed as a translation of the name Jehova, 
because that name is used constantly in the " translated" Old 



THE GREAT ONE 135 

Testament, neither of Jah nor Twah. And, lastly, who ever 
heard of translating proper names, not to mention such a 
proper name as that of the Almighty Father? 

The title page of the New Testament informs us that it was 
"Translated out of the Original Greek," (not "from the 
Greek," please observe). What was the original Greek when 
all the earth was of one language and one speech? At the time 
that Jesus is accredited with walking this earth, Greek, 
nationally virtually dead, had become only the scholarly, if 
not the court, language of the known world. As such it seems 
to have enjoyed somewhat the same position that has French 
until recently. But although the man of culture is supposed to 
possess some familiarity with the French language, it is not 
expected as a means of communication from the lips of, say, 
Italian, Portuguese, or Irish laborers. One should not be, 
but nevertheless would be, astonished to hear even an Ameri- 
can workingman conversing with a fellow laborer in letters 
proclaiming such niceties of speech as those of Racine, or Ros- 
trand. And yet this is exactly what Biblical language, if trans- 
lated from the Greek, would proclaim the fishermen and 
laborers who followed Jesus capable of, for the language of 
the grave and cultured scholar was apparently their daily, 
even personal, medium of intercommunication. But in any 
case they were not Greeks, and probably from their environ- 
ment, on the shores of a provincial lake, and their stations in 
life, had never come into close contact with any of that na- 
tion; and if there is a more difficult mode of expression than 
Greek to the one of another speech, no schoolboy who has 
been stopped from playhours to master the irregular verbs 
and neuter gender of that language will admit such possibility. 

In Isaiah 19:18, quoted at the beginning of this offering, 
we are told that five cities in the day of the Lord shall speak 
the language of Canaan. What was the language of Canaan, 
— Greek? 



136 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Finally if Greek and Hebrew were the inspired languages 
God must now be speechless. 

But as a matter of Biblical fact, there is neither English, 
French, Greek, Hindustani, Persian, Choctaw, nor any other 
one-tongue as a distinct expression, for all languages and 
tongues unite correlatively, and their unition is nearer that 
which we call English than any other form of known speech. 
God (Word) is Universal, not racial nor national. 

Ense libertatem petit inimico tyrannis. As Dr. Eliot said, it 
is time we got away from the tyranny of the Bible; time that 
we entered into the fullness of our inheritance as the sons of 
God, and that inheritance we are told is the one speech and 
one tongue of Universal Brotherhood and Sonship. The 
sword of liberty makes itself an enemy of tyranny. Out of the 
mouth of the "one clothed like unto the Son of man," says the 
16th verse of the ist chapter of Revelation, "went a sharp 
two-edged sword." This sword is "rightly dividing," and it 
is the enemy of tyranny. Mark how the use of the Tetragram 
by Jesus is referred to in the Bible itself. 

The scribes and the Pharisees, we are told, had brought 
before Him a woman taken in adultery. Explaining this fact 
to Jesus, they sought opportunity by the manner in which 
they put their questions to trap Him into some expression 
contrary to their rabbinical law. 

St. John, 8th Chapter: 

6: . . . But Jesus stooped 
down, and with his finger 
wrote on the ground, as 
though he heard them not. 

Jesus as the skilled workman was supposed to be the one 
who could "rightly divide the word of Truth." Also, He was 
the son of a carpenter, brought up at least, partly, at His 
father's trade, hence versed in the use of square and compass. 
If not "rightly dividing the word of Truth" at such time, 



THE GREAT ONE 137 

are we to suppose that He was idly scratching words of 
the sort that one usually writes on the ground with one's 
finger, or the point of a stick? The ground is not a field in 
which to indulge in lengthy scripture with the point of one's 
finger, nor suitable for literary passages. 

If, then, Jesus at such a time, and knowing that He was 
being tempted into a trap, "stooped down and with his 
finger wrote on the ground," it is logical only to assume that 
He was writing something pertinent to the moment, and 
something the whole import of which He could not carry in 
memory to the full without the momentary assistance of 
written figures. In other words, if He was not Tetragramming 
the situation for a suitable reply, — He, the master of the Tet- 
ragram, — then the only remaining assumption is that He 
must have been writing merely anything to obviate the 
necessity of a reply. 

And yet He did answer, and at once; that is, as soon as He 
had "lifted himself up" from what He was writing on the 
ground. So remains but the conclusion that the Master was 
using the weapon of mastery to "rightly divide the word of 
Truth," and procure a balanced reply, which in all effect He 
gave His "tempters." 

This work has sought to avoid the appearance of "preach- 
ing," or " teaching," asking rather that the reader collaborate 
with the author in the presentation of what is herein written 
in Brotherhood, which is equality of sonship. But it is felt that 
here it is only just to the purport of this writing to point out 
how much can be accomplished, and how much failure saved, 
by following out just Jesus' method of "rightly dividing the 
Word of Truth" in crisis. It is balance in business that pro- 
motes success, and the 'Tetragram was devised for balancing 
or "rightly dividing" all conditions of our Father's business. 
Jesus went about His Father's business. Manipulating the 
Stock Exchange, blacking boots, managing the affairs of a 



138 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

bank, sweeping the streets, measuring out groceries, and any 
other of the legitimate activities of man are, when carried on 
in balance, or "rightly divided," our Father's business. To be 
about such successfully, the word of Truth, which is all that 
sustains the whole system, from Wall Street to the running 
of the corner grocery, must be in balanced ledgers, "rightly 
divided," honestly apportioned. Anything other, history of 
both business and nation has, over and over, shown but to be 
productive of failure. And the balanced methods contributory 
to business success are just as necessary to our every act of 
private, personal life. 

Says a sundial in a quiet, old, lichen and ivy grown church- 
yard in England, 

Horas non numero nisi serenas. 
"I count only those hours that are serene." 



THE SONG OF SONGS, WHICH 
IS SOLOMON'S 



V 

AS Has Been said before, it is not the purpose of this 
/ % work to become inconoclastic of established order, 
A. Ml. but in the presentation of the Word, as offered 
herein, it becomes necessary at times to point out obviously 
intentional discrepancies in Scriptural text, as well as obvious 
intents in such discrepancies. Thus, in the Gospel according 
to St. Matthew, chapter i, verse I, we read: 

The book of the generation 
of Jesus Christ, the son of 
David, the son of Abraham. 

Then follow for 16 verses an account, apparently, not of the 
generation^ or work, of Jesus Christ, but of His ancestry. Are 
generation and genealogy the same? Or, is it possible that the 
"translators," those silent ones, whose diction has been 
the despairing admiration of the man of letters throughout the 
ages, knew not the difference between the words generation 
and genealogy? Is there no significance that the "Son of 
David" was also the builder of the Temple, and of Gezer, 
constructing the former in proportion so that with micro- 
scopic accuracy it should counterpart the Great Pyramid? 
Building this Temple, too, without the aid of axe or hammer. 
The Son of David, in the Holy Bible, is called Solomon. Solo- 
mon builded a Temple whose measurements correspond abso- 
lutely with the Chamber of the King in the Great Pyramid. 
In Revelation the King is identified as the Christ. 

Solomon is repeatedly called the wisest of all men. In the 
12th verse of the ist chapter of II Chronicles, God Himself, 
addressing Solomon, says: 

Wisdom and knowledge is 
granted unto thee; and I will 
give thee riches, and wealth, 
and honour, such as none of 



142 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

the kings have had that have 
been before thee, neither shall 
there any after thee have the 
like. 

As the Son of man, Jesus, according to His genealogy, suc- 
ceeded Solomon by several centuries, it is only to be assumed 
according to this direct arrangement recorded by God Him- 
self that Jesus could not hope to equal Solomon in either wis- 
dom or knowledge. Here we arrive at an impasse. The only 
solution seems by acknowledgment that the Son of David was 
the Son of David; that the Biblical Jesus and the Biblical Solo- 
mon were one and the same. What further light thereon in 
Holy Bible? 

The Song of Solomon. 

Caption to Chapter i. 
/, The church's love unto Christ. 8, Christ directeth her to the 
shepherds' tents: 12^ 'The church and Christ congratulate one 
another. 

The first verse to this chapter, whereof the contents state it 
to be entirely concerning Christ and His church, says it is 

The song of songs, which 
is Solomon's. 

Solomon was certainly the son of David, and so, according 
to St. Matthew, was Jesus Christ. 



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The church was, then, Christ's Life, or Love. 

Caption to Chapter 1. 

/, The mutual love of Christ and his church. 14, Christ's 
care of the church. 

Even as in chapter 1, this whole chapter concerns appar- 
ently the love song of a man for a woman, and of a woman for 
a man, yet in such perfect hermaphroditism of expression 
that it is often almost impossible to distinguish the differences 
in the two speakers or singers. 

Through 8 chapters in all does this Song of Songs run, and 
each chapter heading tells succinctly that it describes only 
the love passages between Christ and His church, yet in the 
text of this Song of Songs not one mention is made of either 
by direct or indirect reference, and the supposition in such 
text is indicated to be that of a love song of Solomon's, at 
what time that wisest of monarchs answered the impulse of 
his heart. Certainly it is a song of a male to a female, and a 
female to a male, in most impassioned and unintelligible lan- 
guage. Oddly, too, neither from pulpit, platform, chancel, nor 
desk, is any reference ever made to this divine "Song of 
Songs. " It is avoided as though it were the incantation of the 
Devil. 

But, not only is it divine in rhythm, but designed even as 
the Tetragram to "rightly divide the word of Truth." Its 
hermaphroditism is perfect. Its poesy and metre are un- 



i 4 4 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

equaled. For its sentiment, turn, for instance, to chapter 8, 
verse 8: 

We have a little sister, 

and she hath no breasts; 

what shall we do for our sister 

in the day when she shall be 

spoken for? 

The two singing are supposedly utterly enwrapt in the joy 
of their own loves, — yet they pause to think of the little de- 
formed sister. Is there any greater testimony to Love itself 
than that? "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay 
down his life for his friend." 

Unequaled in poesy and beauty of sentiment, the Song of 
Solomon serves yet a greater purpose, for it confirms in metre 
the Consciousness States of the 'Tetragram. The number of 
rhythmic impacts of each verse, c Tetragra?ned :> will give the 
Consciousness State which the numeral of each verse sug- 
gests. 

The Holy Bible was written by masters, under the direc- 
tion of the Master. No mistakes are possible to such. This 
rhythmic impact, so obvious in the Song of Solomon because 
of its perfect poetry, is carried out throughout the whole of 
both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation. Thus, the 
memory of such verses, because of the suggestion contained 
in the Consciousness States of such, are retained, when the 
mere words would be forgotten; so that, even though we have 
neglected to open the Bible since the school days of child- 
hood, verse after verse from the oldest, and only, Psychology 
in the World comes tumbling into place when wanted; and to 
lips, utterly unframed to the repetition of Scriptural text, 
come at odd moments to confirm story, adorn tale, or point 
moral, scraps of quotations from the Holy Bible, as though 
such were matter of every-day phraseology. 

Finally, referring again to the original language of the 



THE SONG OF SONGS 145 

Holy Bible, why the constant italics in its various passages? 
It is possible, of course, that such might have been inserted as 
single words, or as a verb, for instance, by the " translators " to 
clarify the text; but when it comes to whole added italicized 
lines, obviously not part of any of the original, one logically 
inquires why the liberty? 

Take, for instance, that verse (6) from the 8th chapter of 
the Gospel according to St. John, before quoted, 

But Jesus stooped 
down, and with his finger 
wrote on the ground, as 
though he heard them not. 

The first italics, bis, might have been inserted by the " trans- 
lators" to clarify the act, although it is difficult to conceive 
how He could write with another's finger, but are we to as- 
sume that these "translators" would take the liberty of 
adding a whole sentence of six words, not needful to the un- 
italicized text, of their own volition ? Such presumption would 
not be tolerated in the translation of a modern novel. We had 
best close the Holy Bible here and now, for apparently we 
are not reading the inspired Word of Truth, but the con- 
ception of such by a number of unauthentic, unknown 
"translators." 

Or, 

St. Matthew, 1st Chapter: 

6: And Jesse begat David the 
king; and David the king be- 
gat Solomon of her that had 
been the wife of Urias. 
Or, 

I Chronicles, 28th Chapter: 

21: And, behold, the courses 
of the priests and the Levites, 
even they shall be with thee 



146 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

for all the service of the house 
of God: 

And these courses, to be with us even, are 10-10, male and fe- 
male as man. Or, 

Solomon's Song, 4th Chapter: 

1: Thy teeth are like a flock 

of sheep that are even shorn, .... 

That is to say, by what right would any translator of any 
text add such a line as in the above verse, or any of the pre- 
ceding verses here quoted, more especially when the omission 
of the italicized words makes just as good sense in every par- 
ticular? It almost seems as though the "translators" had at- 
tempted to change the meaning of the text itself, for certainly 
in the majority of cases wherein such italicized words are 
used the interpretation is vastly different to what would be 
the case without the interpolation of such. These interpol- 
ations occur with greatest frequency throughout the entire 
text of the Holy Bible. Wherefore, it is obvious that either 
these "translators" took such liberties with Holy Bible, that 
there is no slightest dependence to be placed on their "transla- 
tion" of such as an expression of God, or that such italicized 
words were deliberately introduced in the original writing 
with purpose aforethought. In this latter case, obviously no 
"translator" is responsible for the language and text of Holy 
Bible. 

And if these italicized words were deliberately introduced 
with especial design? 

Italics are devised to emphasize, or call especially to the 
reader's attention. The Pyramidal way of calling attention to 
the chief corner stone was to obviously reject the same, and 
this rejection was accomplished by putting such corner stone 
where every visitor to the Great Pyramid would be obliged to 
pass by it, and by very nature of its symbolism, — the 
Sphinx, — stop and wonder at its purport and history, its 



THE SONG OF SONGS 147 

raison d'etre. Apply this same process to the italicized 
wordings in the Holy Bible, and with equal ease the capstone 
becomes automatically lifted therein into place, and the 
swastika of language opens its petals of wondrous reveal- 
ments, so that the reader will see and hear therein the beauti- 
ful story of the male and the female, which is Word, the love 
of Christ for His church, the Song of Songs, which is Solo- 
mon's. 

Word: We-heard; and to hear is to obey. Jesus, the 
expounder of Word, said, the first commandment of 
all is, Hear, O Israel, — that is, Hear, O is real. The O 
is the circle, the symbol of Mind. £PV-heard, — the 
We is the male and female of Word, likeness and 
image, by which in Genesis 1:26-27, God pro- 
claimed Himself as Us. 

Israel: Eyes-real. The All-Seeing Eye. 

Bible: By-Able. It was by Able, the man of the 
second birth, that the salvation of mortal man was 
to be wrought. The Able Bye, or Way, was taught 
by the Christ, who called Himself the Way. 

Pyr-amid: Peer amid, look in the center, go to the 
root of. The city which, in Revelation, is lighted 
from (amid) within. 

Tetragram: The symbol of workmanship in the 
"rightly dividing of the word of Truth." The Sym- 
bol of the Crown and the Cross, the Circle (Com- 
pass) and T-Square, the tools of the Carpenter and 
Mason, without which the latter has no Lodge. 

And when they were 
come unto a place called Gol- 
gotha, that is to say, a place 
of a skull, 

St. Matthew 27: 23 (Degree of Masonry) 



148 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Gall-goetb-o'er, as this place in metaphorical Bibli- 
cal sound-la.ngua.ge is called, or the Place of a Skull, 
the Head, wherein the name of the Beast, says the 
Bible, was written, and of the bitterness of which 
the Crucified refused to drink until it be replaced 
with His Father's name, that was to be written in 
the foreheads of the Faithful (Revelation 14:1). 
For, 

They gave him vinegar 

to drink mingled with gall: 

and when he had tasted thereof ', 

he would not drink. 
St. Matthew 27: 34 (Masonic Degree, the alphabetic X) 

And the scripture was ful- 
filled, which saith, And he 
was numbered with the trans- 
gressors. 
St. Mark 15:28 (Location-Completion) 

The Son of man must be numbered with the transgressors at 
the place of a skull, before attaining to the Head. The only- 
known method of numbering Him would be by the Tetragra?n. 



Behold the place of a skull, the place of Crucifixion, as told 
in Holy Bible, Gall-goeth-o'er. Here, the strength of head, or 
headstrongness which led to the first disobedience by the 
woman, is crucified, or expiated for by her seed, so that the 
word of Truth becomes rightly divided, in balance, the wo- 
man regaining her own. From this is the figure of the Tetra- 
gram derived by means of which we count the number of the 
Beast, which the Bible says is wisdom, and by means of which 
are the transgressors, and the Son of man, all numbered, — 
even the hairs of the head, and the little obscure sparrow 
that falleth, — by means of which the little breastless sister is 
considered and made whole. 



THE SONG OF SONGS 149 

Tetragram, — T-true-gram, or True measure and 

weight by the T, (T-square). 

The homogeneous word g-r-a-m, Tetragramed, — 

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Transition is the Way. There is but the one Way, for the 
Straight Line must give place to the Line of Beauty, and the 
Line of Beauty merges at once into the O, the circle. "Hear, 
O is real." Thus, by direct reasoning, the Tetragram becomes 
T — true-circle. 

Now to "true" the circle we have given us since time im- 
memorial the figure ~f]~, which we call pi, as to the value and 
process of use of which there has been since the ages learned 
debate. This " truing " of the circle is mathematically demon- 
strated by the Great Pyramid in its proportions. So we have 
~f]~, or T, true-circle. 

A second's observance shows the figure pi (~ff ) to be but 
two "t's" placed close together. Wherefore such read, of 
course, T-T, or "TeT," — thus for 

Tetragram, read Pi (~jf)> True-Circle, or the True 
Square of the Circle, — the balancing of the sexes, 
the Brotherhood of Man and consequent Father- 
hood of God. 

This final revealing comes in the Book of Revelation. Rev- 
elation means revealing. Our word "News," we are told, is 



ISO THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

gathered in sequence by the composition of the scattered 
integers which tell the four points of the compass, or circle, — 
7V-orth, £-ast, /F-est, ^-outh, — even as we are informed the 
sons of God are to be gathered from the four corners of the 
earth finally. Revelation is News. The gathering of the word 
News together integerically is obviously by Tetragramatic 
process, by the squaring of the circle. 

TVbrth — £ast — ^outh — /Fest, — Four distinct words gath- 
ered integerically into one. 

Genesis, nth Chapter: 

i : And the whole earth was of 
one language, and of one 
speech. 

Thus says the Free-Mason: 

"The Holy Bible, Square and Compass are not only styled 
the Great Lights in Masonry, but they are also techni- 
cally called the furniture of the Lodge: and it is 

held that there is no Lodge without them." 

Mason: My Son. 

Masonry: My Son Ra (the Light, or Sun). 

The Son of Ra (Ray) is Osiris. In the hand 
of Osiris is the Square of the Circle, the 
'Tetragram. 

Science: S-Eye-hence: 7;z-sight, or true sight; Wis- 
dom (Rev. 13:18) — Eyes-real. 

S — Inspiration 27 9 
c — Contemplation, Investiga- 
tion 6 6 
i — Assertion, Ego (Truth) 14 5 
e — Attenuation (final analysis) 10 10 
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processes, or hours, on the Cross, as told 
in the four Gospels. 



The Way, and there is only one way, the Way of Ability, 
Bye-Able. Transition is by the Transit, and the Transit is 
circular in shape and process, pointing always to the four 
quarters, N-e-w-s. Hence Masonry, Transiting, or the Art of 
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Adequately to express such, we have no word for Love, 
apparently. The Egyptian Mason called this word Ah Morel 
which, in the subsequent confusion of tongues as told in the 
nth chapter of the Book of Genesis, became fused (or con- 
fused) into the one word Amour, and also armor. This latter 
was, during the dark ages, mortal man's way mostly of ex- 
pressing his love. 

The last war, we are told, was to be called Armageddon. 

Christ, in the Holy Bible, spoke in parables. A parable is a 
parabola. Geometrically, the Line of Beauty is a parabola. It 
is also a. parabola in figure of speech. Finally, Webster's dic- 
tionary defines sparable as a "similitude." 

Thus Armageddon, the last war, announces itself in parable, 
Ah More Getting. 

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In the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, Male and Fe- 
male speak, or sing, what apparently purports to be a pas- 
toral; and a pastoral is a poem which relates, among other 
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THE SONG OF SONGS 153 

This Song is titled to be the loves of Christ and His 
Church, but is sung as from Solomon to his love. Christ, in 
the Holy Bible, be it remembered, is spoken of once and again 
as the Good Shepherd, — He who was sent to the lost sheep, — 
and is the Shepherd King, of course. So, logically, this Song 
which is Solomon's, and is all about Solomon, but is titled as 
the loves of Christ and His Church, would be sung in pastoral ', 
or shepherd parable. But there is also another reason for the 
shepherd symbolism in this, and such reason is to be found in 
verses 7 and 8 of the first chapter of this Song of Songs, 
which is Solomon's: 

7: Tell me, O thou whom my 
soul loveth, where thou feedest, 
where thou makest thy flock to 
rest at noon: for why should 
I be as one that turneth aside 
by the flocks of thy com- 
panions? 

8 : If thou know not, O thou 
fairest among women, go thy 
way forth by the footsteps of 
the flock, and feed thy kids 
beside the shepherds' tents. 

Why should the words thy flock , in the 7th verse, be in italics? 
Obviously not because the mysterious "translators" of the 
Holy Bible were unable to find those words elsewhere in this 
text, for in the lines following, as well as in the verse follow- 
ing, flock and flocks are both used in unitalicized form. So 
that, by process of elimination, we arrive at the only conclu- 
sion possible, — namely, that by this so obvious emphasiza- 
tion, even as in the case of the Sphinx, it is desired that the 
reader especially observe and reflect upon the word flock, or 
the words thy flock. 
What, then, is flock? 



154 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

Webster's International Dictionary of the English Lan- 
guage describes such thus: 

Flock: 

A company or collection of living creatures. . . . A Christian 
church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pas- 
tor, or minister in charge. 

Of flock Dryden says: 

Friends daily flock. 

Milton poetizes: 

The heathen .... came to Nicanor in flocks. 

2 Mace. 14:14 

And Lord Tennyson, referring to a pastor and his congrega- 
tion, writes: 

As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. 

The Christ is the Great High Priest, and the chief corner 
stone, on undisputed Biblical authority. His flock, therefore, 
would be logically those of His congregation, or those who 
congregate, or draw-unto Him. 

And I, if I be lifted up from 
the earth, will draw all men 
unto me. 

St. John 12:32. 

Men emphasized, even as flock, whereby it is patent that 
Christ's flock is man. 

The Christ is figured in the capstone of the Great Pyramid, 
which when lifted up from the earth draws all the integers 
known as man, whose number is 666, unto it. At noon, this 
chief corner stone, in place, is the apex of the Pyramid, — that 
solemn index finger which points continually to the sun over- 
head, and by the distance of which from the Great Pyramid's 
base is the mean of the sun from the earth computed. And 
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THE SONG OF SONGS 155 

on the earth's known surface where, at precise noon, the 
phenomenon of a directly overhead sun occurs always. Hence, 
in the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, His Church asks of 
Christ where He makes His^o^ to rest at noon. 

And, that there may be no mistake in confirmation of this 
exact location where, in symbol, the Christ makes His flock 
to rest at noon, in the following verse (8) the Christ advises 
His Church, if she know not the where, to follow the footsteps 
of the flock and feed her kids beside the shepherds' tents. 

Why the shepherds' tents? 

The Great Pyramid is the center of that three Pyramidal 
group, all unique in the exactness of their orientation, which 
is known as the Gizeh Group. It is generally supposed that 
this group, or at least its central figure, was erected during 
the reign of the Hyksos Kings of Egypt, who were called the 
Shepherd Kings. The Gizeh group of Pyramids has also been 
called the Shepherds' "Tents. 

But why tents? 

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second Consciousness State, 2, amply confirms the correctness 
of usage of this word tent in this connection. Tent, — ten-t; 
ten-{t) placenta, place-enter; ten-t(t\e). Ten-d: the Shepherd 
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156 THE COFFER'S MESSAGE 

even 

Christ; and all ye are brethren. 
St. Matthew 23:8 

So, in The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, says the 
Christ to His Church, If you would know where the flock is 
made to rest at noon, go feed your kids beside the Great Pyra- 
mid. And that which is beside the Great Pyramid is the figure 
on the Capstone, whose number is 666, and which, in place, 
evens and balances all. 



In the Holy Bible the Christ is unmistakably identified with 
Solomon, both being the son of David. 

Solomon builded Gezer. 

He builded the King's House. 

He builded the Lord's House. 

He builded the Temple. 

He builded without the sound of any building tool. 

The dimensions of the Temple and of the King's Chamber 
in the central figure of the Gizeh group are identical, inch for 
inch, cube for cube, cubit for cubit. 

The King's Chamber is also identified with the Son of God. 

The Son of God is called the Christ. 

The Christ claimed that He could rebuild the Temple 
within three days, or units of Consciousness. 



The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, concerns the loves 
of Christ and His Church. 

Solomon was, of course, a master Mason. 

The Free-Mason acknowledges the Masonry of Solomon. 
So does the Bible. 



THE SONG OF SONGS 157 

In Temple lore, the Master Mason is Osiris, the Son of Ra, 
the Son of Light, Life, Being, God. 

In the Holy Bible the Master Builder was the son of a car- 
penter, Himself a carpenter. 

Mason and Carpenter both work with T-Square and Com- 
pass. In his hand holds Osiris: 




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